From: "Kevin Kirwan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Guys,
> I've got a newbie question: I'm writing a Perl program to get some
> system information about particular users. The command(s):
> $command=q(/usr/bin/last vtran|head -1|awk '{print $4,$5}');
> $Last=system "$command"; print $Last;
>
> This returns the fields that I want, except I also get the return code
> (0), in addition to the fields I want. This is messing up my write
> (output format). Is there a "slick" way to get rid of the return
> code? Thanks in advance for any assistance,
No this doesn't return the fields. The only thing that gets assigned
to $Last is the zero.
The fields are printed onto the screen by the awk.
You want to use `` (backticks) instead of system().
Jenda
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