Try quoting instead of escaping them. You'll wanna look closer at `perldoc -f system' to grasp the nuances of the system call, and then you should open Shell.pm and look inside. If you do, you'll see that it's using the magic open (see perlopentut)

While Shell.pm might offer some AUTOLOAD magic that appeals to you, I don't think you really want to use it (from the snippets you've shown, you're not doing anything the output of oggenc).

MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"

I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).

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