Hi,
you ment system() wen you said exec()!
perldoc -f system
perldoc -f exec
for short:
exec() replaces the perl process.
system() invokes your myslqdump process and waits till it is finished.
HTH Martin
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:17:03 -0000
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> Howdy,
>
> Please be gentle, I'm a perl novice to say the least.
>
> I have the following script (called bk.pl right now) :
> foreach $argnum (0 .. $#ARGV) {
> my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime
> time;
> exec ("mysqldump --user=*** --password=*** $ARGV[$argnum] > /backups/
> $ARGV[$argnum]--$mon-$mday-$year-$hour-$min-$sec.sql");
> exec ("tar czpf $ARGV[$argnum]--$mon-$mday-$year-$hour-$min-$sec.sql
> $ARGV[$argnum]--$mon-$mday-$year-$hour-$min-$sec");
> }
>
> When I run it (./scripts/bk.pl dbname) it runs the first exec
> properly, but it dose not do the second. I get the error
> (Maybe you meant system() when you said exec()?)
>
> Any ideas as to why this is happening?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
>
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