Bjørge Solli wrote: > On Thursday 20 April 2006 12:01, John W. Krahn wrote: >>Bjørge Solli wrote: >>>I have this as a part of my script: >>> >>> $ncfile = `ls -1 $mersea_cat | head -1`; >>> print $ncfile; >>> >>>It prints the desired first file in $mersea_cat, but _before_ that the ls >>>command prints an errormessage to stderr: >>> >>>ls: write error: Broken pipe >>Why not just do it in Perl without shelling out to use ls and head: >> >>my $ncfile = substr glob( "$mersea_cat/*" ), length( $mersea_cat ) + 1; > > Ah. Of course... > > Since $mersea_cat = /path/to/filenamestart* to represent all the files > starting with filenamestart, this worked fine: > > $ncfile = glob($mersea_cat); #path and filename is ok. > > Thankyou very much. > > Still wondering why that errormessage was printed though, but not very > important any more.
It is a shell error. Perhaps this will explain: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.shell/browse_frm/thread/db662cdf6c43cbab/27662922386b59b3?lnk=st&q=broken+pipe+group%3Acomp.unix.shell&rnum=10&hl=en#27662922386b59b3 John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
