But the commands do still run in the command line, is there anyway to throw a perl variable in there?
yitzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perl captures the output from backticks so nothing gets printed to the screen. __CODE__ my $x = "efg"; my $y = `echo $x`; print $y; __OUTPUT__ efg __END__ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.