Thanks Mark. Just changing the single quotes to double quotes worked for me. Your help is appreciated.
Manas. Quoting Mark Goland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 1:27 AM > Subject: zcat > > > > Hi > Hello, > > I have a gunzip file which I have to decompress through a perl > script > > and copy the uncompressed file to another file. > > I used this > > > > system('zcat -c $filename > out'); > Problem is when ever your put anything into ' ', parser will not > inflate it. > so basicly $file is what zcat to be as file. > > HTH, > Mark > > where the filename is stored in $filename. > > > > zcat gave me an error message that the output is not read from a > > terminal. Could you please give me an option for zcat which I can > use > > for this. > > > > Thanks, > > Manas. > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > > > > > > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>