note goibhniu <p> Check out [antirice]'s [id://648493]. Your goals seem to overlap with what he accomplished in some ways. You may even be able to use his infrastructure and reduce your dupe logic / Perl::Critic logic to a macro in his system. </p> <p> I had problems getting it going, but once I got IPC::Run working (on WINXP), it worked well and I've found it to be a much appreciated small convenience at times. </p> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-632330"> <hr /> <font size='1'> #my sig used to say 'I humbly seek wisdom. '. Now it says:<br /> use strict;<br /> use warnings;<br /> I humbly seek wisdom. </font> </div></div> 667084 667084