Source: libshell-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Dominic Hargreaves Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9) Standards-Version: 3.9.6 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libshell-perl.git Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-perl/packages/libshell-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Shell Package: libshell-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Description: run shell commands transparently within perl The Shell module is a show case, illustrating a few Perl features. It shouldn't be used for production programs. Although it does provide a simple interface for obtaining the standard output of arbitrary commands, there may be better ways of achieving what you need.