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Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2005 11:29 am
Subject: output from system call
> Hi,
Hello,
> Is there a way to store the output of a system call on unix?
>
sure
> eg. system("date");
my $Date = system("date");
>
> I like to store the date output to a variable. The only way I
> know of is to open and write the output to a file and then read in
> to a variable. Is there a simpler way?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Geraldine
>
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