Hi Rob, On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Rob Coops <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not 100% certain but I would say because in the first instance $WGET > $file does not result in anything, the printed line is not printed by your > program but by the wget command. > > Try modifying your script to the follwoing: > $result = `$WGET $file`; > print "Result = $result\n";
You're correct. That now outputs 2008-11-11 08:16:55 (550 KB/s) - `test.zip' saved [1517245/1517245] Result = How *can* I correctly capture that WGET output into a variable that can be then tested? --JC -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
