[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, Is there a way to store the output of a system call on unix?
eg. system("date");
use backticks...
$date = `date`;
Don't forget to chomp the $date variable as I guess you just want the date, not the newline character with it...
chomp($date);
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