Thanks John,
The missing ! was the trick. I knew it had to be something stupid. Adding
that and using SYSTEM which I incorrectly thought was unavailable made
everything work.
Now onto bigger and better things.
Neal
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> On 3/11/09 Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:36 AM, "neckha...@penntraffic.com"
> scribbled:
>
Thanks Jim,
The missing ! was the key. I knew it had to be something stupid.
The capitalization of the commands was just to differenti
Hi,
I thought: 'perl is pretty eclectic, and it's usually simpler than it looks'.
Let's give it a try:
The following does what you want from an AIX 5.3 (perl 5.8.2) command line
perl -e'print system("ls -l")'
These are quotes and apostrophes. No "backticks."
On 3/11/09 2:36 PM, "neckha...
Neal wrote:
> I am starting to learn Perl as the ksh scripting language
> My environment is AIX 5.3 running some sort of 5.8 PERL.
I was struggling trying to learn Perl via DJGPP on Windows 95 (?) and
Programming Perl:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596000271/index.html
Programming Perl is
neckha...@penntraffic.com wrote:
Hi guys,
Hello,
I am starting to learn Perl as the ksh scripting language (which I
don't know either) looks less than powerful.
I have used C many years ago, and write my stuff in REXX on a
mainframe, so Perl looks like the best of both worlds.
My environmen
On 3/11/09 Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:36 AM, "neckha...@penntraffic.com"
scribbled:
> Hi guys,
>
> I am starting to learn Perl as the ksh scripting language (which I
> don't know either) looks less than powerful.
>
> I have used C many years ago, and write my stuff in REXX on a
> mainframe, so Perl
Hi guys,
I am starting to learn Perl as the ksh scripting language (which I
don't know either) looks less than powerful.
I have used C many years ago, and write my stuff in REXX on a
mainframe, so Perl looks like the best of both worlds.
My environment is AIX 5.3 running some sort of 5.8 PERL. O
