system() returns the exit code of the commands you executed. In this case, your command was successful and thus your "zero" return.
http://tinyurl.com/chrdoo If you're using Perl, you can do the processing that awk and grep are doing as well. On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 06:50:01PM +0530, Rajini Naidu wrote: > Hi, > ? > ?I am trying to execute the below line in the perl program and returns a > value 0. > ? > my $test2 = ""; > my $include =? "file"; > ? > $test2 = system("/usr/atria/bin/cleartool desc \$include | grep created | > awk -F\" \" \'{print \$2}\' | cut -b 1-9 "); > ? > The value returned by $test2 is 0. I suspect grep and awk commands are not > getting executed. > Is there any thing wrong in the syntax ???? > ? > -Rajini? > ? > ? -- Brad Lhotsky
