Hi, --- On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Prasanna Venkadesh <[email protected]> wrote: | Yeah.. thanks for this, it works but may i know why Backticks are preferred | over system, inspite it increases lines of code. \--
Length or number of lines is not important. With backticks, you can return the results to a variable. system() only returns the exit status. Also read: $ man system SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
