I appologize that this is more of a shell question (tcsh) than a perl
question, but I've found that most of the really good perl guru's are fairly
decent shell wizards as well :-)
I have a c-routine that calls a perl script something like this:
system("myscript.pl arg1 arg2 > myfile.txt");
What is the easiest way to prevent "myfile.txt" from being created if the
script dies or produces no output? (It seems the shell will always create
myfile.txt, regardless)
I can think of a couple of ways offhand...
1. Within the c-routine, check for an empty file after the script is run
and remove if empty.
2. Handle the output directly from within the perl script with
open/print/close (I.E. avoid redirection)
I was hoping some shell guru out there knows a more generic approach.
Thanks,
-Dan
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