It's "perldoc -f system" not "perldoc system".
--Ahmed

Gary Hawkins wrote:

>>  system("rm -rf $file");
>>
>>But if you copied this from another source, that source was totally
>>unaware that deletion of files like THAT is TOTALLY unsafe.  A safer
>>approach is:
>>
>>  system("rm", "-rf", $file);
>>
> 
> I'm not aware of the reason for it.
> 
> What's a good way to find which perl doc contains the thing I need to read
> about?
> 
> This will prolly make me look stupider than I wasn't to be of something then
> of, but:
> 
> C:\>perldoc system
> No documentation found for "system".
> 
> /g


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