Hi > Perhaps $touchcmd and $chkstat could be done in perl instead of running > them in an external process? What exactly do $touchcmd and $chkstat do?
$chkstat="cat tmp"; The source looks to me that you only want to see if the file is created or not? you can simply call open(); to check this for you, but stat() would be better, i think. $touchcmd="touch test"; for touch you can use http://search.cpan.org/~nwetters/File-Touch-0.02/Touch.pm If you dont have File::Touch installed, the main thing is sysopen my $fh,$file,O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_NONBLOCK|O_NOCTTY or croak("Can't create $file : $!"); close $fh or croak("Can't close $file : $!"); if your sysopen() works, your file is surely created. I think that would make the hole thing faster and easier., -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
