How To Properly Specify Command and Arguments to Exec in Perl

When using Perl’s exec() call, the best way to invoke it is as follows:
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exec("$dir/myprog.sh",@ARGV); |
This syntax does some important things: – passes a scalar value as the first argument which exec interprets as PROGRAM – passes an array as the second argument which exec will use as the arguments to pass into PROGRAM Note […]