Re^2: problem in running UNIX command through perl

The quotes shouldn't interfere and would be required if he had spaces in his filenames for example

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Re^3: problem in running UNIX command through perl by mpeever (Friar) on Oct 28, 2008 at 01:43 UTC
It sometimes makes the code more readable to delimit strings in `qq{}`: my $cmd = qq{ egrep -f "$_proj_file" "$_running_file" > "$_admin_temp_ +file" }; my $result = `$cmd`; # or even qx{$cmd} [download] That keeps you from having to escape quotes, etc.	[reply] [d/l] [select]