Gavin Henry wrote: > On Tuesday 31 Aug 2004 01:51, you wrote: > > 2. The way you're calling system() looks odd. You're using more > > than one arg, which is a signal to bypass the shell. But your > > second arg looks like it needs shell processing. Does this actually > > work? > > Yup, out of the cookbook.
Odd. Which cookbook? Here's a simple illustration of what I'm talking about. Consider a simple command like head /etc/services /etc/protocols This works, as it passes the command line to the shell for processing $ perl -e 'system "head /etc/services /etc/protocols"' This also works, as I'm splitting the arguments myself: $ perl -e 'system "head", "/etc/services", "/etc/protocols"' But this (which is similar to what you're doing) doesn't work: $ perl -e 'system "head", "/etc/services /etc/protocols"' head: /etc/services /etc/protocols: No such file or directory Since there's more than one argument to system(), the shell is bypassed, and execve(2) sees a single file name "/etc/services /etc/protocols" instead of two separate file names. Hence, the error message. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
