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Did you do ... 
$ perl -e 'my $env = system( qq ( whoami )) ;'

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... that worked for me?

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Re: Re: shell to perl
by sauoq (Abbot) on Jan 24, 2003 at 00:31 UTC
    ... that worked for me?

    Uhm... No, it didn't. In your case, $env was set to the exit status of whoami(1), probably 0.

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"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";
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      Uhm... No, it didn't. In your case, $env was set to the exit status of whoami(1), probably 0.
      Yeah so ... does that mean it "didn't work"?
      *Geez*
      $ perl -e 'my $env = system( qq ( whoami )) ;'
rbc
$ perl -e 'my $env = system( qq ( whoru )) ;'
wrong

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