On 8/19/06, John Ackley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
`/bin/rm -f \"$oldimage\"`; `/bin/rm /tmp/errormessage`;
Why not simply use Perl's unlink function?
`/usr/local/bin/gnuplot $gpfile 2>&1 >/tmp/errormessage` ;
Use backticks if you're interested in the output. But if you're not looking at the output, you should probably use system instead. In this case, since you've sent the errors to filehandle 1 (which is to say, gnuplot's errors will become become the return value of the backticks), you're discarding any error messages that gnuplot produces. Did you mean to put the two redirections in the opposite order, perhaps, so that errors would go into the file? But I see a number of modules on CPAN that involve gnuplot. Maybe you could save yourself some time and trouble by building upon one of those. http://search.cpan.org/search?query=Gnuplot&mode=all Hope this helps! --Tom Phoenix Stonehenge Perl Training -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
