Re: perl program

2003-07-24 Thread Aaron Christopher Vonderhaar
If you use a unix-like system and have some kind of priviledged access, you could try: create a new user, say "perlmaster" chown perlmaster script.pl chmod 700 script.pl # only "perlmaster" can run it (echo "#!/bin/sh"; echo "/path/to/script.pl") > run_the_script.sh chown perlmaster run_the_scri

list syntax for backquote-like functionality

2003-07-23 Thread Aaron Christopher Vonderhaar
Dear kind perl guru: I am aware of the differences between qx// and system(), but here is my problem... $s = "\`backquoted'string\`" print $s,"\n"; #=> `backquoted'string` system ("echo", $s); #=> `backquoted'string` system "echo $s"; #=> sh: command substitution: line 1: unexpect