Re: Call shell script in Perl

One trick that you can use is to wrap one character inside square brackets:

$count=`xyz [a]bcd`
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The shell will interpret "[a]" as "a", but in the process list it shows up as "[a]bcd" and will not be matched.

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

Don't fool yourself.

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Re^2: Call shell script in Perl by mrborisguy (Hermit) on May 26, 2005 at 18:30 UTC
The "Most Ingenious Answer of the Day Award" goes to frodo72. Your prize is a highly coveted upvote from me. -Bryan	[reply]
Re^3: Call shell script in Perl by polettix (Vicar) on May 26, 2005 at 22:06 UTC
Now that you gave the prize to me, I can confess that it's not my invention - I saw it in some `grep`-related documentation a lot of time ago. Maybe you can mentally turn it into a "Memory Award"! Flavio (perl -e 'print(scalar(reverse("\nti.xittelop\@oivalf")))') Don't fool yourself.	[reply] [d/l]