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The b***ards are going to check the source.
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Re^5: Use text string as stdin for system process
by quester (Vicar) on Jan 05, 2007 at 23:14 UTC
    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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    $x="whatever"
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