On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 22:18 -0500, David wrote: > Thank you to all who helped me get a 6 digit date into perl. I > certainly heed warnings about not using outside system calls in perl > however, I have to make an outside call again. > > > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > use strict; > > my $fileName = "081201 diskSpace.txt"; > my $fileLoc = "/Users/mini/diskSpaceLog/$fileName"; > system "(df -mg;) >$fileLoc &"; > > > > My problem is the last line. Output: > sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `diskSpace.txt' > sh: -c: line 1: `(df -mg;) >/Users/mini/diskSpaceLog/081201 diskSpace.txt &' > > > I made sure to follow the Learning Perl code. It's just not working for me.
The problem is the space character in the file name. Try: system "(df -mg;) >\"$fileLoc\" &"; -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn The key to success is being too stupid to realize you can fail. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
