Shell version 0.7
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NAME

    Shell - run shell commands transparently within perl

SYNOPSIS

       use Shell qw(cat ps cp);
       $passwd = cat('</etc/passwd');
       @pslines = ps('-ww'),
       cp("/etc/passwd", "/tmp/passwd");

       # object oriented 
       my $sh = Shell->new;
       print $sh->ls('-l');

DESCRIPTION

This package is a show case, illustrating how to provide a 
simple interface for obtaining the standard output of
arbitrary commands. It shouldn't be used for production programs. 

This was originally written by Larry Wall back in 1994.
Later contributions came from Jenda@Krynicky.cz, Dave Cottle,
Casey West and Wolfgang Laun.

Extracted from core distribution for publishing on the CPAN 
by Adriano Ferreira <ferreira@cpan.org>.

BUGS

F<Shell.t> emits the warning:

  Name "main::SAVERR" used only once: possible typo

which is untrue because SAVERR is used in C<open> arguments
like C<">&SAVERR">.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

  Test::More

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2005 by Perl 5 Porters

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.
