in reply to Unsuccessfully passing arguments to a bash command

Welcome zapatafa,

Most times when you call a shell, the problem is in the special characters of Perl and of the shell. Try doing this: 

my $cmd = qq|[Path]bash -ic ...|;
print "$cmd\n";
system($cmd);

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Then look for any differences from your command line call. Replace Path with the full path name to get to 'bash'.

Update: Happy-the-monk pointed out my error, thanks.

Regards...Ed

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

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Re^2: Unsuccessfully passing arguments to a bash command
by zapatafa (Initiate) on Jun 15, 2013 at 20:22 UTC
    I've tried this. But even if I write 
    #!/usr/bin/perl
my $cmd = qq|/bin/bash -ic untouchable john mike bill|;
print $cmd;
system ($cmd);

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    The output is 
    /bin/bash -ic untouchable john mike billStarting...
done!

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    Somehow the arguments john mike bill are getting lost.
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[d/l]
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      Where john mike bill are what?

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