Hello monks. I have a brand new workhorse of a perl script to manage my backups. One small prob with it. I am using rsync at one point and so I am using backticks to call it. I suppose using system() or open() with |- might be more enlightened, if so I'd like your thoughts on that. But here is the code: 
$| = 1;
my $rsync_cmd = "rsync -vza --delete --delete-excluded $exclude_opts $
+conf{dir_backup_from} $mountpoint_reversed_enc";

print qx/$rsync_cmd/;

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as you can see I am trying to use $! to get my qx// to flush rsync's output so I can see it scroll happily by. But it has no effect (of course). So is there any way to turn off the pesky buffering?

In reply to backticks buffering, tally me banana by sbeam

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