newbie needs help

2003-07-07 Thread dakenah johnson
Hi I am writing a script that uses backquotes and the ps-ef command to print the UID and command for all currently running processes. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; my $process = `ps -ef`; while (<>);{ push @process = spilt (/\|/,$_); print "Owner:[1] command:[8] where did I go wrong? thanks, DJ ___

writing a script

2003-02-15 Thread dakenah johnson
Hi, I am trying to write a script that reads names fron standard input and matches it to a key in a given table and prints out the name and key Enter a first name or " ", to exit chomp { $name = }; while $name ne " " if $name is in @given_table then print "$name maps to $value in given_table"

Perl script

2003-02-08 Thread dakenah johnson
Hi all, I am a novice to perl. I find Perl very interesting and I am studying how to write and compile perl scripts without syntax and compilation errors. I need heads up on how. thanks, DJ _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. G