Question

I have a Perl Module that i created and i want to run one of the subroutine in it on a schedule. I know I can just make a small perl script that calls the subroutine and call it from the crontab but if there is a way to call the subroutine right from the crontab that would be cool!

Is this possible?

Answer 1

You can use Perl’s -e switch for executing code from the command line, e.g.

perl -e 'use your_module; your_function()'

Make that even shorter with the -M switch for loading a module:

perl -Myour_module -e 'your_function()'

The perlrun man page is your friend.