Jay Grant wrote:
>
> Hi,
Hello,
> Please forgive this VERY basic perl question .. but I am trying to write a
> perl menu script but I can't seem to get the commands to run. I can get a
> normal print to work, but not the unix commands (date, who, etc.) Here is
> the program ... what am I doing
Made minor changes:
#!perl -w
my $date = localtime(time);
while ( 1 ) {
print "\nCOMMAND MENU\n";
print "\n a. Current date and time\n";
print "\n b. Users currently logged in\n";
print "\n c. Name of the working directory\n";
print "\n d. Con
On Friday, July 26, 2002, at 10:56 , Jay Grant wrote:
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> what am I doing wrong?
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
> $date = "/usr/bin/date";
the double quotes there make that a 'string' just as
my $date = "that really cute one with the big tracks of land";
what you want to do is 'execute'
