Re: how to invoke unix commands in perl

[coolmichael]

in reply to how to invoke unix commands in perl

why bother with unix at all?

perl -e "while(<>){} print qq($.\n);" filename

[Anonymous Monk]

But how to invoke setenv or source commands in perl These are built-in shell commands. -Bhanu

[Anonymous Monk]

Those particular commands would be useless anyway because they only take effect for the current shell which would be exited anyway once the OS call is done.