From: "Matthew Weier O'Phinney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Basically, I have the following question(s) about the backtick operators:
> In a scalar string context, will a shell command called by the backtick
> operator return ALL lines? i.e., if egrep returns multiple lines, will
>
I'm trying to call egrep from a perl script using the backtick operator
-- I need to parse the output from egrep to see if additional information
is contained, something like:
$parseFile = `egrep -d skip \\/dev/null`
if ($parseFile =~ /method\s*=\s*\"?post/ ) { do this; }
(I realize I could prob
