On Jan 7, Families Laws said: >I tried to do a change directory and then do a tar of >the directory:
Use the chdir() function. > system("cd /usr/apps"); That creates a new shell, exectes 'cd /usr/apps', and then closes the shell. End result: you've moved nowhere. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]