Nkuipers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> or something along those lines. in any case I have been under the
> impression that calls to the system are more appropriately made like
> this:
>
> system "date";
>
> than this:
>
> `date`
>
> though I can't remember what gave me that impression. =)
>
Backticks return the output of the external program.
my $date = `date`;
system() ignores the external program's output and returns
the it's exit status instead.
system("rm $file") == 0 or die "message: ", $?>>8;
So choose between them based on what you want from the child
process.
But really, use unlink() and localtime().
Perl can *crush* /bin ;)
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Steve
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