Re^2: invoke shell with `` failed

It seems my problem is not the same as node 684300. since when i use

$begin_load = `cat /proc/loadavg`;
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I will also encounter the same issue.

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Re^3: invoke shell with `` failed by parv (Parson) on Apr 15, 2009 at 10:07 UTC
What about environment variables mentioned later, which did not occur to me at the time of my reply to perl: Argument list too long?	[reply]
Re^3: invoke shell with `` failed by pat_mc (Pilgrim) on Apr 15, 2009 at 10:01 UTC
Clearly, my $variable = `cat some.file`; [download] works fine for "well-behaved" files. I suspect the problem you are having is due to the contents of the file you are listing. Either it is too large (i.e. larger than your RAM so Perl cannot fit it into the scalar, which is unlikely) or it contains some character sequence that causes problems. Does your shell list the file OK? Cheers - Pat	[reply] [d/l]