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Uhhh ... how are they going to know?

-derby
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Re^4: Use text string as stdin for system process
by baldywilson (Initiate) on Jan 05, 2007 at 16:33 UTC
    The b***ards are going to check the source.
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      Actually, you can do exactly the same thing in Perl, although it's considered stylistically sucky and is a hazard to security if there are variables that mischievous users can set to evil values. 
      $x=`cat <<endl | grep whatever
yadda yadda
whatever
yadda yadda
endl`;
chomp $x;
print qq{\$x="$x"\n};

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      prints 
      $x="whatever"
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