--- Saifuddin_Bohra/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > I am new to Perl. I have a follpwing shell script > > if [ -n "`netstat -na|grep LISTEN |grep 1099`" ]; > then > exit 0 > else > exit 1 > fi > > I need the perl script for the same job. > and how to use this in another perl program > Any pointer ?? > > saifuddin
This should work ..... #!/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; if ( length(qx(netstat -na|grep LISTEN |grep 1099)) > 0 ) { exit(0); } else { exit(1); } (There are ways to shorten this, but this is the basic code I think you are looking for) -Jeff __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]