From: Moreno, Javier (GXS, Softtek) [mailto:Javier.Moreno@;gxs.com]
>>I am trying to run a small script to do a whole bunch of things on files.
However, I cannot even make it 'cd' into a correct directory. This is a smal
piece of it:
# CD into each directory on the working directory $scall = 'cd /forms/'.@dirlist[$i]; print "Attempting '$scall' ...\n"; system ($scall) or die "\nError! Invalid directory?";
Never use a system call when there is a built-in to do the same function (there are a couple of exceptions to that rule for later).
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