Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I'm trying to create a mail filter script in perl. The user will send
> mail to the script and the script will hold the mail until it receives
> further orders from the script. Each individual email needs to be
> stored in its own file while waiting to be processed. I want a random
> code for the filename to be used for each individual email. I was
> thinking something like this:
>
> date +%N | md5sum
>
> However, while I can call this command using exec(), how do I use the
> output in my script?
Try Googling for "shell commands perl". The Shell module will probably
do the trick for you.
Chad Martin
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