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in reply to Run multiple shell commands on the same perl script

You can do like so: 

use warnings;
use strict;

  for my $cmd(qw(ls ipconfig)){
     system("$cmd");
  }

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NOTE:
  1. Please, check this How do I post a question effectively?

  2. "..When I run the script below, it only picks the first commands.."
    3. Reason and Answer:
    "..The "exec" function executes a system command *and never returns*; use "system" instead of "exec" if you want it to return...."
    Check also exec and system
  3. I used ipconfig instead of the OP ifconfig because I tested this on window OS.
Hope this helps.

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