Craig Inman wrote: > > No, I'm not trying to capture the output of any of these. 'zowner' tells who the > file belongs to, if it fails, it will not return any output. I have tried using > > if (system ("zowner $claims[0]") != 1) > then claimsubmit the file > > but for some reason the 'zowner' program does not consistently returning a true 1 > or 0. The only 100% way to be sure it worked is to very that it outputs the real > owner of the file.
The "convention" for command line programs is to return 0 (zero) for successful execution and non-zero if unsuccessful. The entry for system() in the perlfunc document explains how to get the reasons the program failed from the $? variable. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]