Re: system ("cd ..")

On Aug 29, Eliyah Kilada said:

How can I access a specific child process, such that I put all my system commands in one child process?

It sounds like you want a shell script rather than a Perl program. Or, perhaps you should figure out how to do things via Perl rather than calling the shell to do them all.

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