eep! I am referring to the system() call there... :)

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Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:09:50 +0530 (IST)
From: Deen Hameed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Russell Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "<" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pulling file name into perl


Hi Russell,

It executes a command and returns the EXIT STATUS of the command. 

If you look in $date, you will find the exit status of "ls ..." as
returned by the wait() call.

deen



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