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... that worked for me?

Uhm... No, it didn't. In your case, $env was set to the exit status of whoami(1), probably 0.

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Re: Re: Re: shell to perl
by rbc (Curate) on Jan 24, 2003 at 02:45 UTC
    Uhm... No, it didn't. In your case, $env was set to the exit status of whoami(1), probably 0.
    Yeah so ... does that mean it "didn't work"?
    *Geez*
    $ perl -e 'my $env = system( qq ( whoami )) ;'
rbc
$ perl -e 'my $env = system( qq ( whoru )) ;'
wrong

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