On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:47 PM, swaroop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As we know there are 3 ways a system shell command to be executed. > > 1.> $var = system("command"); > 2.> $var = exec("command"); > 3.> $var = `command`; > > What is difference between these three? I found that the first two > options are printing the output of the command. And the third one > simply stores the output in the variable.
`command` for capturing the command's output and assign it to a variable. for what's the difference between system and exec, see 'perldoc -q "exec"'. -- Jeff Peng - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Squid supports in China http://www.ChinaSquid.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/