On Nov 14, 2007 11:11 AM, Marco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> $inact = "cat /proc/meminfo | grep -w Inactive | sed 's/^.*Inactive: //
> g' | sed 's/kB//'";
> $result = system(cat /proc/meminfo | grep -w Inactive | sed 's/
> ^.*Inactive: //g' | sed 's/kB//');
> print $result;
>
>

btw, here you really don't need the dirty system calls.
to get the info you want, just do:

my $result;
open HD,"/proc/meminfo" or die $!;
while(<HD>) {
    next unless /Inactive/;
    $result = (split)[2]; last;
}
close HD;

print $result;

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