Re: using unix command issue...

2008-10-23 Thread cancer
On Oct 21, 4:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John W. Krahn) wrote: > Ariel Casas wrote: > > Hello all, > > Hello, > > > > > Any time I run a unix command where I initiate a variable > use the > > variable as an arg in the unix command > pipe it to another unix > > command, I get an error.  This is the er

Re: expect error

2008-10-23 Thread cancer
On Oct 21, 8:27 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juan Pablo Feria Gomez) wrote: > > use strict; > > use warnings; > > use Expect; > > use IO::Tty; > > > $host = "192.168.1.72"; > > $passwd= "xyz"; > > $user = "xyz"; > > > $t= "file.txt"; > > my $connect = Expect->spawn("scp $t [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/work/$user/"

retreive numbers from alpha-numeric string

2008-09-16 Thread cancer
Hi, I am using Perl on Linux server. I m writing a code which will tell us the Linux distro with version. For this the command is cat /etc/issue which is common for all the distributions of linux. But the output varies for different distributions. For e.g. SUSE Welcome to openSUSE 11.0 (X86-6