Unnecessary Shell Calls

        `date`

• Other common culprits here:

        @files = `ls`;
        @files = `ls *.c`;

• Use glob('*') or glob('*.c') instead

        $data = `cat file`; 

• Use

        { my $fh = FileHandle->new('file');
          local $/;
          $data = <$fh>;
        }

• (Make this into a function if you do it a lot.)

        $cutvar = `echo $array[0] | cut -c1-7`;

• Use

        $cutvar = substr($array[0], 0, 7); 

• In this last case, what if $array[0] contains a * character?

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