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Re^5: Multiple commands with one system callby shriken (Priest) |
on Sep 30, 2011 at 13:39 UTC ( [id://928805]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
if Perl detects any shell meta-characters, it forks-and-exec a shell to handle the command. So you can jam a series of shell commands into your system() call.
Note that I said "can", not "this is a good idea." ;)
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