$ perl -de 'print "hello world\n"; die; LABEL: print "fnord\n"; exit 0;' Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.3 Editor support available. Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help. main::(-e:1): print "hello world\n"; DB<1> n hello world main::(-e:2): die; DB<1> n Died at -e line 2. at -e line 2 Debugged program terminated. Use q to quit or R to restart, use o inhibit_exit to avoid stopping after program termination, h q, h R or h o to get additional info. DB<1> q $ perl -de 'print "hello world\n"; die; LABEL: print "fnord\n"; exit 0;' Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.3 Editor support available. Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help. main::(-e:1): print "hello world\n"; DB<1> n hello world main::(-e:2): die; DB<1> goto LABEL fnord Debugged program terminated. Use q to quit or R to restart, use o inhibit_exit to avoid stopping after program termination, h q, h R or h o to get additional info.