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Re: shell execution questionby hacker (Priest) |
on Jun 07, 2003 at 12:18 UTC ( [id://263950]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I've always been a fan of IPC::Open3 for things like this. With it, you can catch and manipulate STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR, and it makes things like ping, ssh, rsync and rlogin type-tasks very easy. You could also look into Net::Ping, Net::SSH, File::Rsync, and File::Remote, depending on exactly what it is you're trying to do on that remote system. `Backticks` are almost never what you want to use, the most-obvious reason being the glaring security implications.
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