Chapter 18. Interfacing with the System
System Calls
Those migrating from shell (or batch) programming to Perl often expect that a Perl script is like a shell script—just a sequence of UNIX/Linux (or MS-DOS) commands. However, system utilities are not accessed directly in Perl programs as they are in shell scripts. Of course, to be effective there must be some way in which your Perl program can interface with the operating system. Perl has a set of functions, in fact, that specifically interface with the operating system and are directly related to the UNIX/Linux system calls so often found in C programs. Many of these system calls are supported ...
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