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run unix commands in perl

May 18th, 2006 by Lawrence David

to run a unix command in a perl script, use backticks. for example to call curl in perl:

`curl -o file.out “http://stinkpot.afraid.org:8080″`

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5 Responses to “run unix commands in perl”

1. on 14 Sep 2006 at 9:32 am   William

   Thanks for info. I’ve been looking for a way to do this.

2. on 22 Oct 2006 at 6:20 pm   Ali

   Another way to do this is by using thte function system. Something like:
   system(‘curl -o file.out “http://stinkpot.afraid.org:8080″’);

   The backticks are actually supposed to set a string to the output of a command. For example something like:
   @dirs = split(/\n/, `ls | more`);
   and therefore are blocking.

   If you include an & in the command given to system it will be non-blocking.

3. on 22 Oct 2006 at 6:51 pm   Lawrence David

   thanks for the info ali!

4. on 09 May 2008 at 7:31 am   6f1cea4f6c5b

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5. on 04 Jul 2011 at 12:54 am   sweat

   may i know how to use unix command: “history” in perl script? where I need to list out the history of the unix command in a perl script.