calling an external program and capturing the output

[Marek Kubica]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:36:59 -0800 (PST)
Xah Lee <xahlee at gmail.com> wrote:

> See:
> 
> • Making System Calls in Perl and Python
>   http://xahlee.org/perl-python/system_calls.html

You can safely drop the Raw-Strings as they are only needed on Windows
when constuction paths and programs with hardcoded paths are rare.

regards,
Marek