Read File::Find. Some shell commands return 0 for success and others for failure or some problem. The case with 'find' is the same. If you are taking the return value then of course you will get the numerical stuff.
--- Elanchezhian Sivanandam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > i want to find the hierarchial path of a file > inside a perl script. > the path can be found using the shell command > find [path] expression.. > and assign to a variable in perl. > but it gives me a numerical value. > how to get it as a string? > > thanks in advance. > > cheers../elan > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
