Hello,
> Seems like you're stuck again. Okay, the problem here is the
> ">/dev/null". Notice the ">" sign over there. It's the shell
> redirection metacharacter which causes "the shell" to pipe
> the output of
> one script to a file. When you use "system" in list context,
> like you're
> doin
Hi again,,
Seems like you're stuck again. Okay, the problem here is the
">/dev/null". Notice the ">" sign over there. It's the shell
redirection metacharacter which causes "the shell" to pipe the output of
one script to a file. When you use "system" in list context, like you're
doing, you will
Hello,
# use
@args = ("/dir1/dir2/prgname","arg1","arg2","arg3","-p","/dev/null");
$rc = system @args;
since "-p" is an argument just as much as "/dev/null" is an argument.
Hope this helps,,,
Aziz,,,
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ken Cole"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> if from the com
if from the command line a run
/dir1/dir2/progname ar1 arg2 arg3 -p /dev/null
it works.
if I do:
@args = ("/dir1/dir2/prgname","arg1","arg2","arg3","-p /dev/null");
$rc = system @args;
The application stops with an error saying the -p /dev/null is an
invalid argument.
It is a standard argume