Hi,
Is there any difference between the backticks and the process open
which you have just demonstrated?
I mean, does perl internally implement it differently?
For eg. A backtick may be passed to the shell directly
while the open(as above) may be implemented using popen,
which involves creating a pipe, forking, and invoking
the shell.
Or does perl just execute the command and then provide you
with a line by line output as you read it.

Thanx
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