Re: can't run mailx as PERL system command

From: Elliot Holden <eh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
ok this is problem going to be real easy for one of you PERL gurus but

It's either Perl (the language) or perl (the interpreter), there is
no such thing as PERL.

my little brain just can't figure it out. From the command line (Solaris
9) I can do this fine:

echo my little test | mailx -s "Test Message" email@xxxxxxxxxxxx

But in PERL the below code does not work:

system("echo my little test | mailx -s \"Test Message\"
email@xxxxxxxxxxxx");

Use one of the many modules available from CPAN for sending email.
MIME::Lite, Mail::Sender, Mail::Mailer, Mail::Sendmail, ... to name
just a few. It's possible that some of them are already installed.

even if I just do:

system("mailx email@xxxxxxxxxxxx");

If you

use strict;

you get an error that will make it clear that perl though you want to
insert the contents of array @mydomain into the doublequoted string.
You have to escape $ and @ in doublequoted strings, otherwise you do
not get theliteral $ or @ but the contents of some variable. Or an
error if you use strict and the variable was not declared.

HTH, Jenda
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