hai both of these didnt help me.. @kammen i can run the history command from the command line.. but not through the perl script.. i have tried ur choice but it also didnt work..
@shawn yes it didnt gave me any out put.. but i require to print the output.. so hw do i do it.. can some body help me on this.. Chaitanya On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Shawn H Corey <shawnhco...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 10-05-18 08:51 AM, Chaitanya Yanamadala wrote: > >> Can't exec "history": No such file or directory at cmd.pl line 33,<STDIN> >> line 1. >> ------------------------------ >> >> so what could be wrong >> i am running this under the cent os 5.4 and the perl version is 5.8.8 >> > > "history" is a built-in shell command for bash(1). When you run a system() > in Perl, it uses the POSIX shell sh(1). sh(1) does not have a history > command, so you get the error. > > You could try running it with bash(1): > > system( "bash -c history" ); > > but you might not get anything in return since this is a new process of > bash(1). > > > -- > Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, > Shawn > > Programming is as much about organization and communication > as it is about coding. > > I like Perl; it's the only language where you can bless your > thingy. > > Eliminate software piracy: use only FLOSS. > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > >
