Thanks everyone for the input.
Getting the date output is much easier in perl than I originally thought.
thanks!
Geraldine
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Ankur Gupta wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > Is there a way to store the output of a system call on unix?
> > >
> > > e
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Ankur Gupta wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Is there a way to store the output of a system call on unix?
> >
> > eg. system("date");
> >
> use backticks...
>
> $date = `date`;
This is, of course, exactly the wrong way to solve this problem.
Perl has date f
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Is there a way to store the output of a system call on unix?
eg. system("date");
I like to store the date output to a variable. The only way I know of is to
open and write the output to a file and then read in to a variable. Is there a
simpler way?
Thanks in advance.
chomp($date=`date`) ; ##exploiting what Perl offers but C doesnt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2005 11:29 am
Subject: output from system call
> Hi,
Hello,
> Is there a way to store the output of a system call on unix?
>
sure
> eg. system("date");
my $Date = system("date");
>
> I like to store the date output
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Is there a way to store the output of a system call on unix?
eg. system("date");
use backticks...
$date = `date`;
Don't forget to chomp the $date variable as I guess you just want the date, not
the newline character with it...
chomp($date);
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