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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl system() to run a script Post 302847513 by rajamadhavan on Tuesday 27th of August 2013 07:06:48 AM
Old 08-27-2013
I dont think you need backticks. Just try with

Code:
$cmd = qq(/path/to/csso stylesheet.css > stylesheet.min.css)

---------- Post updated at 06:06 AM ---------- Previous update was at 06:01 AM ----------

And capture the exit code by assigning system($cmd) to a variable
 

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NAME

       HsColour - generate colourised output for Haskell code

SYNOPSIS

       HsColour options [file.hs]

DESCRIPTION

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