I'm trying to get the response of a curl call into a variable in perl. my $foo = `curl yadd yadda`; print $foo; does not work. When I run this at the command line the curl call prints all its ...

system, exec, open '|-', open2, etc. all allow me to specify the command to run as a list of arguments that will be passed directly to execvp instead of run through a shell. Even if perl is smart ...

I'd like to unit test a Perl program of mine that is using backticks. Is there a way to mock the backticks so that they would do something different from executing the external command? Another qu...