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in thread I'm an idiot newbie, so

Didn't know if that was even a keyword. Many thanks. -Brett

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(bbfu) (system) Re(3): I'm an idiot newbie, so
by bbfu (Curate) on Apr 20, 2001 at 23:37 UTC

    Beware that exec never returns (if you didn't already know that), because it replaces your process with the new one.

    If you want to make multiple "execs", you can use system.

    Check out perlfunc for a list of all available functions and keywords in Perl.

    bbfu
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Re: Re: Re: I'm an idiot newbie, so
by arhuman (Vicar) on Apr 21, 2001 at 17:16 UTC
    Just to complete chady and bbfu answers.
    backticks quotes could be handy too...
    (When you need to grab the produced output)

    You might then use something like :
    $string_to_process=`ping $host`;

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    (notes that variable are interpolated inside backticks)

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