Re: Perl "system" command

2002-01-23 Thread Kevin Kirwan
"Jenda Krynicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 3C4DB27B.15762.1FE92DCC@localhost">news:3C4DB27B.15762.1FE92DCC@localhost... > From: "Kevin Kirwan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Guys, > > I've got a newbie question: I'm writing a Perl program to get some > > system information about

Re: Perl "system" command

2002-01-22 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: "Kevin Kirwan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Guys, > I've got a newbie question: I'm writing a Perl program to get some > system information about particular users. The command(s): > $command=q(/usr/bin/last vtran|head -1|awk '{print $4,$5}'); > $Last=system "$command"; print $La

Re: Perl "system" command

2002-01-22 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jan 22, Kevin Kirwan said: >$command=q(/usr/bin/last vtran|head -1|awk '{print $4,$5}'); >$Last=system "$command"; >print $Last; > >This returns the fields that I want, except I also get the return code (0), No. This prints the fields you want when you call system(), and returns the error co