#!/usr/bin/env perl use File::Basename; use strict; use warnings; @ARGV = (dirname(__FILE__)."/test1.txt"); while(<>) { chomp; print "It was $_ that in some stooge like file!\n"; } #### #!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; @ARGV = ("C:/Scripts/test1.txt"); while (<>) { chomp; print "It was $_ that I saw in some stooge-like file!\n"; }