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zatarboy has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks,

I would like to pass the string below to shell using backticks and have tried using escape characters in a number of different combinations, but nothing seems to work. I have no problems passing simple commands like ls so I'm guessing I need escape characters in the right place. Your help would be very much appreciated. Thanks

my $snmp_trap = `/usr/bin/snmptrap -v 2c -c public 127.0.0.1 '' .3.5.6.1.4.7.34566.12343.897.0.2 \`