Hi..
Thanks for all you guys help & Suggestion. Actually I truned around to use the other way to get the data I need since system() give me such a hard time... :( my $inactive = "cat /proc/meminfo | grep -w Inactive | sed 's/ ^.*Inactive://g' | sed 's/kB//'"; open(DATA, "$inactive|") || die "Can't run '$inactive': $!\n"; while(<DATA>) { print "$_"; } close(DATA); -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/