Re: [MacPerl] running a unix program from perl(newbie)

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 03:59:10PM -0500, Ben Brown wrote:
> I need to execute a unix program from my perl script.  How would I do this?
> 
> example:  cvs -d /directory/base update /directory/info/work  would be what
> I used at the command line, how would I get my script to do this for me?
> 

>From MacPerl?  Good luck.

Ronald

P.S.  If this were the MacPerl-AnyPerl list, I would have directed you to
perlop, where you could read about backticks (``), and perlfunc, where you
could read about system() and open().  ;)


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