>> how can I output "first line\n" and "last line\n" to the screen >> but save the result of system command "ls" to a file(eg >> "result")(not appear on the screen")?
>> On 24 Nov 2002 23:42:50, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Unbuffer STDOUT: > $| = 1; > See 'perldoc perlvar' for information about the $| variable. This doesn't help with storing the output from ls to a file rather than STDOUT, which should be done with something like: open(FILE, ">result") or die "$!"; print FILE `ls`; close FILE; - Chris. -- $a="printf.net"; Chris Ball | chris@void.$a | www.$a | finger: chris@$a -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]