On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 6:21 AM, schms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
snip
> while (<RDME>) {
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you need a chomp here

snip
>        my $POLICYNAME = $_;
>
>        my @args = ("/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpplinfo
> $POLICYNAME -modify -inactive");
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this is a pointless use of an array with one element.

Try this instead:

open my $readme, "-|", $COMMAND
    or die "had a problem running $COMMAND: $!\n";

while (my $policyname = <$readme>) {
    chomp($policyname);
    system("/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpplinfo", $policyname,
"-modify", "-inactive");
}

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Chas. Owens
wonkden.net
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