On Wed Oct 09, 2002 at 02:23:22PM -0700, Manish Tiwari wrote:
> Hi
>
> i was trying to do something like
>
> @data = `ls -ltr ` ;
how about,
if defined(@data = `ls -ltr`){
block of code
}
>
> < do some operation check whether ls command actually worked>
>
> now i want to pass the contents of "data" thru unix commands like egrep and
> sort
>
>
> so in all operation will be like
>
> ls -ltr | grep -v total | sort +8
>
> but making sure that ls command actually worked
>
>
> any help
>
>
> Thanx
> Manish
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