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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+# Poor man's perl shell.
+
+# Simply type two carriage returns every time you want to evaluate.
+# Note that it must be a complete perl statement--don't type double
+#  carriage return in the middle of a loop.
+
+$/ = '';	# set paragraph mode
+$SHlinesep = "\n";
+while ($SHcmd = <>) {
+    $/ = $SHlinesep;
+    eval $SHcmd; print $@ || "\n";
+    $SHlinesep = $/; $/ = '';
+}