On Thursday 20 April 2006 23:31, John W. Krahn wrote: > 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/db662cdf6c >43cbab/27662922386b59b3?lnk=st&q=broken+pipe+group%3Acomp.unix.shell&rnum=10 >&hl=en#27662922386b59b3
Brilliant, thanks! So it's because a cronjob is run in sh and my shell when running interactively is bash. Should have thought about that:-) -- Bjørge Solli - Office:+47 55205847 http://www.nersc.no Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center - Bergen, Norway Dept.: Mohn-Sverdrup Center for Global Ocean Studies and Operational Oceanography -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
