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#!/usr/bin/perl

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my $output = qx'echo $SHELL' ;

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      qx/STRING/
      ‘STRING‘
              A string which is (possibly) interpolated and then exe-
              cuted as a system command with "/bin/sh" or its equiva-
              lent.[...]