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; } -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/