in reply to Building multiline qx// shell commands

Perl doesn't have something like that, but most shells allow you to escape a newline with a \ like this:

qx/a_cmd -with a -lot of -arguments that \
-spill over_eighty characters/;

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Re^2: Building multiline qx// shell commands
by kingkongrevenge (Scribe) on Jul 15, 2007 at 03:11 UTC
    Yeah, I'm a moron. That works fine. 
    print `ls \\
/etc/fstab`;

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