Re^4: Semicolon behaviour in system call

in reply to Re^3: Semicolon behaviour in system call
in thread Semicolon behaviour in system call

Hi Ken, thanks for that nice option, it doesn't quite work from the command line (issues identifying the closing "'"), but from a script it does the trick regardless of PERL distrib used

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Re^5: Semicolon behaviour in system call by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 28, 2014 at 17:42 UTC
Yes and no. "`;`" vs "`&`" is hardly the only difference between `sh` and `cmd`. Even the quotes are different.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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