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From: merlyn@iWarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: chsh /usr/bin/perl
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.171435.2776@iWarp.intel.com>
Date: 25 Jun 91 17:14:35 GMT
References: <1991Jun25.065012.23466@eng.umd.edu> <1991Jun25.135706.20813@convex.com>
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In-Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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In article <1991Jun25.135706.20813@convex.com>, tchrist@convex (Tom Christiansen) writes:
| It would be too hard to type commands in, which after all is what shells
| are all about.  Everything would be system thing, or print `foo` that.

Not if your first entry was: system("/bin/sh") :-)

# warning... probably not SysV compatible, but I don't care... :-)
$0 = "Just another Perl hacker,"; grep(/(Just.*,)/ && (print $1), `ps xww`)
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