Raider wrote: > > Hi! > I plann to make a script which will give me a report about my ppp > connection and about mail trafic. I think I can do that with the usual > *nix tools. But I see this as an excelent idea to learn perl. I have the > HTML perl documentation for 5.005 (I have perl 5.003). But it seems I > need some interctive help as well. > Could someone tell me hwo this script line: > y=`grep "some string" file | tail -n 1 | cut -b5-10` > Sorry if you think this message is off-topic. > BTW: Can you tell me if there is some perl-newbie list? I have > only mail so it's pretty hard to search (so far no result). > > Raider > -- > ``Liberate tu-temet ex inferis'' Try comp.lang.perl.misc . Ralph Gesler
