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in reply to Re^2: Capture output from backtick commands using sudo
in thread Capture output from backtick commands using sudo

Huh? Give perl -E 'say `sudo "/bin/ls"`' a try. The exit status is not the STDOUT of the programme, but it's "return code". Like: did the command succeed?

Cheers, Sören

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