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in reply to Problem with GetOptions

I think your problem stems from the fact that when the shell parses your string, it breaks on spaces (and there are spaces in your thing).

Try this: 

SLIMSERVER_LOG="'|/usr/local/bin/multilog t s1000000 n20 /var/log/slim
+server'"

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Note the addition of quotes, which will cause the shell to not break the string up in the arglist.
--Stevie-O 
$"=$,,$_=q>|\p4<6 8p<M/_|<('=>
.q>.<4-KI<l|2$<6%s!<qn#F<>;$,
.=pack'N*',"@{[unpack'C*',$_]
}"for split/</;$_=$,,y[A-Z a-z]
         {}cd;print lc

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