Intermittent programming can lead to brain bleed off.

In the real script the command is something only found on solaris or
any other zfs filesystem so I just used the first simple command I
could think of.  But the aim is to use the output of a command to
perform a string match.  I left that out too, because even when
reduced to its most basic code `tst' still fails in the same way.

This little example below prints this error .. forever.

  Use of uninitialized value $_ in print at ./tst line 11.

My first impulse was that I had the `dash' with the pipe operator on
the wrong side... but changing it does the same thing.

What is wrong with this example:

cat tst:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $cmd = 'ls /';

open my $ch, '-|', "$cmd" or die "Can't open $cmd: $!";

while ($ch) {
  print;
}



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