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; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/