Running system commands
In Perl, all you have to do is use a similar syntax that UNIX shell scripting uses -- at least BASH. Here's an example that displays the date from the UNIX date command. Basically, just enclose your system commands in back ticks. (`)
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; my $date = `date +%Y%m%d`; print $date;
The use strict; just forces you to use the my function which delares a variable local to the containing block.
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