Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm trying to make this long line of codes in Perl looks nice by dividing it into 2 lines...

Before:
`echo "blahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah" > ~/lalala/lalala/lalala/lalala/lalala/abc`;

After:
`echo "blahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah" >
~/lalala/lalala/lalala/lalala/lalala/abc`;

But the command stops working if I do that. Is there any way to break it into 2 lines like what I have (in After) and still ensure that it works?

perl doesn't have an echo function/command.

Oh sorry, the command should be in ` ` (backdash) because I'm using the Unix command inside of Perl.

Edited the topic.

just break it into two lines then:

`echo "whatever"`;
`echo "whatever\n"`;

Its really pretty silly though to use perl to just run shell commands.

He's using the shell because it's a tad easier to redirect to a new file than to setup Perl's filedescriptor. Still, I wouldn't use backtick operators here, because there's no output from the command to be captured and used by perl.

Instead, I would do this:

Code:

$cmd=q(echo "whatever") . 
q(> somefile.txt);
system $cmd;
# OR
`$cmd`

I guess if you had to write the same code over and over many many times it is easier, but taking the time to write the code in perl (assuming one knows how) might take all of one minute. To each his own though. TIMTO(bad)WTDI.

Good point about using system() instead of tiks.