On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 09:13 +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > have num_of_developers=`cat /etc/passwd | grep developer | wc -l` which gives > the number of developer logins. So how do I get it to do the same in Perl? I
untested... you get to debug it. use strict; my $passwd; my $line; my $num_developers = 0; open( $passwd, '<', '/etc/passwd' ) or die "/etc/password failed to open $!"; while( $line = <$passwd> ) { num_developers++ if( $line =~ /developer/ ); } close( $passwd); -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>