Re^2: problem in running UNIX command through perl

[marcussen]

in reply to Re: problem in running UNIX command through perl
in thread problem in running UNIX command through perl

The quotes shouldn't interfere and would be required if he had spaces in his filenames for example

[mpeever]

It sometimes makes the code more readable to delimit strings in qq{}:

my $cmd = qq{ egrep -f "$_proj_file" "$_running_file" > "$_admin_temp_
+file" };
my $result = `$cmd`; # or even qx{$cmd}

That keeps you from having to escape quotes, etc.