Any perl modules for handling system operations

kulls has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings,
I want to write a test suite for command line (executable) applications through perl.Is there any modules/functions available in perl, so that it can give added values to my test suite apart from perl 'system' and other perlfunction ??.

Update: Thanks for your interest.
xdg and madbombx fulfill what I need (linux,file handling, shell scripts, system commands and test modules).
Thanks in advance,
Kulls

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Re: Any perl modules for handling system operations by xdg (Monsignor) on Nov 18, 2006 at 13:42 UTC
I want to write a test suite for command line (executable) applications For testing command line apps, I like IPC::Run3 instead of `system`, as I can feed STDIN and capture STDOUT and STDERR independently and later check them using regular expressions. There are other test modules that may help, though some of them may have portability concerns. (But if you're on Unix, you're probably safe.) Test::Cmd Test::Expect Test::Files Test::File::Contents -xdg Code written by xdg and posted on PerlMonks is public domain. It is provided as is with no warranties, express or implied, of any kind. Posted code may not have been tested. Use of posted code is at your own risk.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Any perl modules for handling system operations by Fletch (Bishop) on Nov 18, 2006 at 14:32 UTC
Expect may be of interest as well.	[reply]
Re: Any perl modules for handling system operations by madbombX (Hermit) on Nov 18, 2006 at 13:07 UTC
Depends on what system functions that you need and what platform you are running. I am on linux and only have experience with those modules. Here is a short list of what I have found useful in the past: Linux::Statistics, Sys::Filesystem::Linux, Linux::Meminfo, Linux::Stat, Env::Bash just to name a few. But you need to be more specific as ambrus said.	[reply]
Re: Any perl modules for handling system operations by ambrus (Abbot) on Nov 18, 2006 at 11:19 UTC
Could you please be more specific about what functions you'd need?	[reply]
Re: Any perl modules for handling system operations by geekphilosopher (Friar) on Nov 18, 2006 at 22:04 UTC
If you're just looking to capture the output of a system call, the `backtick` operator is what you're looking for.	[reply]