From: Suraj Kurapati <snk@...>
Date: 2007-03-06T16:10:42+09:00
Subject: Re: how to run a command line command

Dale Martenson wrote:
> On Mar 5, 12:22 pm, "shawn bright" <neph...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> sk
> There are a number of ways to accomplish this:
> 
>      system( 'vim somefile' )
> 
> or
> 
>      `vim somefile`
> 
> Note: those are back ticks by the way.

I avoid the latter unless I need the output generated by the command. By 
doing so, I bypass a bunch of needless processing (capture command's 
STDOUT to a newly allocated string buffer), or so I think. Does anyone 
know for sure?

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