.------[ chad kellerman wrote (2002/09/20 at 15:32:11) ]------ | | I tried doing the same thing but my supervisor got mad. We aren't | allowed to use any type of system call in our scripts. If the system | call is in a perl module it's one thing but not in our code. | | system or exec anything that executes from /bin/sh | | even though it is so much nicer to do that, especially using find.. | `-------------------------------------------------
Does he have a sound reason for this or is he just thinking it somehow makes your program more secure or more easily ported, etc? --------------------------------- Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://frank.wiles.org --------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]