Hi David,
you can use either system or `` , for example :
system("ls -F /var > /tmp/t.tmp");
or
$tmp = `ls -F /var > /tmp/t.tmp`;
-Djoko-
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Lubowa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 7:45 PM
Subject: System COmmand's in Perl
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> how can i execute system commands in perl just like how i would do it
while on console ..e.g tail -f /var/log/messages ..that kinda thing...as you
can see the OS type we talking about here is *NIX ..
>
> thanx
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