From a discussion on Hacker News:

One particulary mnemonic collection of switches is -plane: perl -plane 'my $script'. -n and -p are mutually exclusive, but as -p overrides -n, it is easier to just remove -p if necessary.

Few other users in another discussion there mentioned -E -n -l -p options especially useful.

Is there anything really cool about -plane or -Enlp? Are they really somewhat a "Holy Grail" of running Perl scripts from the command line, and why?

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