Re: executing commands and going on

If you want to print

HELLO WORLD;
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you have to escape the ";" character, which is interpreted as command separator by the shell:

system ("echo HELLO WORLD\\; &");
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Note the double backslash: you're using single quotes, so the backslash is the escaping character. The first escapes the second, which gets passed to the shell to escape the ";". There are almost infinite variations in your quoting approach, both within Perl and the shell, but it's left as an exercise :)

Flavio (perl -e 'print(scalar(reverse("\nti.xittelop\@oivalf")))')

Don't fool yourself.

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Re^2: executing commands and going on by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 13, 2005 at 16:45 UTC
`system(qq{echo "HELLO WORLD;" &});` [download] also does the trick.	[reply] [d/l]