On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:59, Raheel Hassan<raheel.has...@gmail.com> wrote: snip > written thsi code, but the result of the command is not saving in the file , > any suggestions please. snip > my $result = 'service mysql start 2>>/var/log/comm.log'; snip
Your are using '' which is the single quoted string (i.e. non-interpolating string), you mean to use `` which is the [command execution string][1]. I would advise against using backticks for this very reason. Use the generalized form instead: qx//. The slashes may be replaced with any pair of characters, or in the case of bracketing characters, the opposite bracketing character: my $result = qx{service mysql start 2>>/var/log/comm.log}; snip > if($result =~ /OK/) snip You also may want to use the [word-boundary zero-width assertion (\b)][2] to ensure that you are matching the word OK not the substring OK in a larger word like LOOK: if ($result =~ /\bOK\b/) [1] : http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Quote-and-Quote-like-Operators [2] : http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html#Assertions Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/