in reply to $@ with backticks inside eval

Why are you using eval at all?
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Re^2: $@ with backticks inside eval
by aplonis (Pilgrim) on Aug 21, 2005 at 03:12 UTC

    The example was cobbled together hastily for this post and otherwise irrevelent.

    My actual use is inside an XML-RPC server script on a remote PC. With eval, if the backticked script fails my server won't die.

    Actual use detailed here

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