Perl Newbie question: How would you take keyboard input and run a shell scrip with that input?

From: Jeff Collins (jtbaca_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/31/03 

Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 08:44:06 -0800 (PST)
To: beginners@perl.org

For example: I would like for the user to enter the
name of a software package to use and then call a
shell script to use that package name to upgrade
software.

Thanks

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Jeffrey T. Collins
jtbaca@yahoo.com

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