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Old 01-27-2012
How to call a bash command from within a perl script?
In a bash script, one can call a perl command in the following manner, where "myperlcommand" is a perl command.

Code:
perl -e 'myperlcommand(arguments)'

perl -e 'print("UUUU"x4)'



Now, how can one call a bash command from within a perl script? (Suppose that mybashcommand is a bash command that I would like to call.)

Many thanks in advance.
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Old 01-27-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by LessNux
...how can one call a bash command from within a perl script?...
Code:
$
$ # Bash command
$ cat testfile
this is a test file
$
$
$ # Perl program
$ cat -n call_bash.pl
     1  #!/usr/bin/perl -w
     2  # Call Bash command
     3  system ("cat testfile");
$
$ # Run the Perl program
$ perl call_bash.pl
this is a test file
$
$

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