Perl Programming/Keywords/readpipe
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The readpipe keyword
[edit | edit source]readpipe executes EXPRESSION as a system command and returns the collected standard output. If called from scalar context, a string is returned. If called from list context, a list of lines as defined by $/ or $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR is returned. This is the internal implementation of the qx/EXPRESSION/ operator.
Syntax
[edit | edit source] readpipe EXPRESSION
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