The first perl scripts that I wrote started out:

print "Enter blah blah blah\n";
$device_id = <STDIN>;
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Which was okay because I didn't have very many devices to keep track of.Then I learned:

$device_id = shift(@ARGV);
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And this was much better ,I could call the script and input the argument at the same time.I now have even more devices and I need to automate the process even more.Can someone point out a better way to do this.What I need to do is read from a file where each line will contain 10 digits and nothing else. Then I will place each 10 digit number in as an argument.I hope I have explained my question well enough Thanks in adance for all of the help

monk2b

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