Shell

# NAME

Shell - run shell commands transparently within perl

# SYNOPSIS

See below.

# DESCRIPTION

      Date: Thu, 22 Sep 94 16:18:16 -0700
      Message-Id: <9409222318.AA17072@scalpel.netlabs.com>
      To: perl5-porters@isu.edu
      From: Larry Wall <lwall@scalpel.netlabs.com>
      Subject: a new module I just wrote

Here's one that'll whack your mind a little out.

        #!/usr/bin/perl
        use Shell;
        $foo = echo("howdy", "<funny>", "world");
        print $foo;
        $passwd = cat("</etc/passwd");
        print $passwd;
        sub ps;
        print ps -ww;
        cp("/etc/passwd", "/tmp/passwd");

That's maybe too gonzo. It actually exports an AUTOLOAD to the current package (and uncovered a bug in Beta 3, by the way). Maybe the usual usage should be

        use Shell qw(echo cat ps cp);

Larry

# AUTHOR

Larry Wall