Perl: System Call

To do a system call, use qx() or system(). The qx command returns unix's stdout and do wait for the process to finish. Example:

qx(gzip x.txt);
qx(gzip -d x.txt.gz);

• http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html
• http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/qx.html
• http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/system.html