On Feb 19, Tony McGuinness said:
>from a simple Perl script (below). The system command is returning
>the error and the pathname points to the current directory. I cannot
>seem to find any documentation on this error. Has anyont encountered
>the same.
As John said, Perl has a module for FTP.
>system("chmod +x ftpscr");
Not only does Perl have a chmod() function, but I wrote File::chmod which
allows you to say
chmod "+x", "ftpscr";
if you like using symbolic modes instead.
>system("/usr/users/tony/perl/proj1/ftpscr") or die "cannot execute ftpscr
>$!";
system() returns zero on SUCCESS. Check its documentation at 'perldoc -f
system'.
>DISCLAIMER
[...]
Ugh.
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