On: Perl 5.38

[dolmen]

I recommend to use qx instead of backquotes. Much more readable because with some fonts backquotes are almost invisible.

https://perldoc.perl.org/perlop#qx/STRING/

[singingfish → dolmen]

I use `use IPC::System::Simple` (with `qw/system capture/` where appropriate) whenever I need to call out to a shell - it's the external process equivalent of `use strict`