Shell version 0.71 ================== NAME Shell - run shell commands transparently within perl SYNOPSIS use Shell qw(cat ps cp); $passwd = cat('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 Jenda@Krynicky.cz, Dave Cottle, Casey West and Wolfgang Laun. Extracted from core distribution for publishing on the CPAN by Adriano Ferreira . BUGS F emits the warning: Name "main::SAVERR" used only once: possible typo which is untrue because SAVERR is used in C arguments like C<">&SAVERR">. 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.