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  9.      Shell - run shell commands transparently within perl
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  12.      See below.
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  15.        Date: Thu, 22 Sep 94 16:18:16 -0700
  16.        Message-Id: <9409222318.AA17072@scalpel.netlabs.com>
  17.        To: perl5-porters@isu.edu
  18.        From: Larry Wall <lwall@scalpel.netlabs.com>
  19.        Subject: a new module I just wrote
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  21.      Here's one that'll whack your mind a little out.
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  23.          #!/usr/bin/perl
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  25.          use Shell;
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  27.          $foo = echo("howdy", "<funny>", "world");
  28.          print $foo;
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  30.          $passwd = cat("</etc/passwd");
  31.          print $passwd;
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  33.          sub ps;
  34.          print ps -ww;
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  36.          cp("/etc/passwd", "/tmp/passwd");
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  38.      That's maybe too gonzo.  It actually exports an AUTOLOAD to the current
  39.      package (and uncovered a bug in Beta 3, by the way).  Maybe the usual
  40.      usage should be
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  42.          use Shell qw(echo cat ps cp);
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  44.      Larry
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  47.      Larry Wall
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