Richard Kettlewell wrote: > >I have a perl-script which does a `/usr/bin/touch FILE` > > Consider using this: > > open(TMP, ">FILE") || die "FILE: $!"; close TMP; > > instead. Life's too short to fork+exec just to create a file.
Better use ">>FILE". It won't truncate the file if it already exist. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias EMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Constantiaplatz 4, 26723 Emden, Germany

