#!/usr/bin/perl -w if (!defined $ARGV[0]) {$ARGV[0] = 3}; print "Argv[0] is $ARGV[0] \n"; print "Just a line to see what happens\n"; # Just to make it fun $less = $ARGV[0] - 1; if ($less) { print "Call with one less: $less \n"; system ("script.pl $less"); print "System returned $? (not that I care!)\n"; }