[PLUG] Scripting

[Eric Wilhelm]

# The following was supposedly scribed by
# Rogan Creswick
# on Wednesday 13 April 2005 12:27 pm:

>     system(
>     "grepmail -hv \"\\[SPAM\\]\" /data4/mail/correspondance$i" . 
>  "> /data2/mail.back/$i"
> ); 

>The nested escape characters probably need tweaking,

A good indicator that you shouldn't be using system() for this.  If you 
need to capture the output or use a pipe/redirect on anything involving 
filenames, you would be much better served with IPC::Run.

--Eric
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