in reply to Exiting a call to exec()

system should do what you want... or backticks...(qx{..} in perlop)

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Re^2: Exiting a call to exec()
by spickles (Scribe) on Jan 08, 2009 at 16:09 UTC
    Perlbotics - system() worked perfectly! Thanks!
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