Gohaku wrote:After using backticks to retrieve executable output, I would like to know if there is a backtick alternative.
You can use in the following way:
$exec = "ls -l"; $src = system($exec);
Please read "perldoc -f system" to find out why you typically can *not* use system() instead of backticks!
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