On 2 Sep 2002, tux wrote: > > > hey all, sorry if im asking a silly or stupid question, but i just CANT > seem to find anything on google/in books on how to do this, its slowly > make me go bald.. > > all im trying to do is run the shell command: > > convert -quality 40 image.jpg resampled_image.jpg > > and basically im getting perl to loop through a directory and resample > any image over a certain size... > > the loop works fine i just dont know how to run the 'convert.. etc etc' > from perl..
perldoc -f system If you want to capture the output of your command use backticks like this my @files = `ls`; # This will store the files in your current dir in @files You can also read up on the qx operator. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
