Question

I am using System() command to execute shell command from perl script but I need to run multiple commands one after another. How can we do that in one line.

What I am doing currently is :

$cmd = "ls -l cd /home/xyz ls -l" , 
System($cmd)

I am sure that single command works fine , Can someone let me know if this is right way to do? if not what is wrong here?

Answer 1

You need to do the same thing that you would in your shell. For your test command, it would look something like:

$cmd = "ls -l ; cd /home/xyz ; ls -l";
system($cmd);

Or better yet, as suggested by BadFileMagic:

$cmd = "ls -l ; cd /home/xyz && ls -l";

This way, the second ls is not executed if the cd fails.