[Israel.pm] integrating unix commands

[Shlomo Yona]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Lena Farid wrote:

> 
> hello,
> 
> Anyone know how to integrate a unix command in a perl script? like what 
> is the syntax for it?

You have several ways. Most popular are using backticks
(qx//) and system(). There are other ways as well.

Here are short slides with many examples 
http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shlomo/perl/lecture6/index.html

(I used these slides in Haifa and I coocked them using the
perldocs).

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Shlomo Yona
shlomo at cs.haifa.ac.il
http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shlomo/