Shell version 0.72
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NAME
Shell - run shell commands transparently within perl
SYNOPSIS
use Shell qw(cat ps cp);
$passwd = cat('</etc/passwd');
@pslines = ps('-ww'),
cp("/etc/passwd", "/tmp/passwd");
# object oriented
my $sh = Shell->new;
print $sh->ls('-l');
DESCRIPTION
This package is a show case, illustrating how to provide a
simple interface for obtaining the standard output of
arbitrary commands. It shouldn't be used for production programs.
This was originally written by Larry Wall back in 1994.
Later contributions came from
[email protected], Dave Cottle,
Casey West and Wolfgang Laun.
Extracted from core distribution for publishing on the CPAN
by Adriano Ferreira <
[email protected]>.
INSTALLATION
To install this module type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
DEPENDENCIES
Test::More
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
Copyright (C) 2005 by Perl 5 Porters
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.
