I'm often doing this: 
$cmd = "a_cmd -with a -lot of -arguments that"
 . "-spill over_eighty characters";
`$cmd`;

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"a_cmd" chokes on newlines, so this doesn't work: 
`a_cmd -with a -lot of -arguments that
 -spill over_eighty characters`;

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I want to skip building the "$cmd" string first. Is there a "/x" option for qx// like m// has? By that I mean qx/a_cmd .../x would ignore any newlines: 
# newline between "that" and "-spill" is stripped out
# before "a_cmd" is run. The command string can be
# split up to fit the screen.
qx/a_cmd -with a -lot of -arguments that
-spill over_eighty characters/x;

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In reply to Building multiline qx// shell commands by kingkongrevenge

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