On Dec 29, 2007 9:18 AM, oscar gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using 'open' I cannot say if the 'del' command was done correctly > or not, although there is a message probably to STDERR that I do > not know how to manage. :-(
I believe you're talking about a piped open() to an external command. The return value from the piped open indicates merely whether the open itself was successful. The result of the command's execution isn't available when open returns, because the command has just then been started, and it may not be done running for some time. Once you're done running the command, the return value from close() tells you whether it exited successfully. Having said that, is the command you're running doing nothing more important than deleting files and directories? In most cases, you can do that more quickly, easily, and safely directly from within Perl. See the unlink and rmdir functions in perlfunc. 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/
