Re: piping versus backticks

2002-01-09 Thread John W. Krahn
Harvey Quamen wrote: > > Hello all: Hello, > I'm working my way through "Learning Perl" (3rd ed) and got stuck in > ch 14 (Process Management, pages 201-202 actually, to be specific) > where the "date" command is is opened through a filehandle with a > piped open. Just toying around to see how

piping versus backticks

2002-01-08 Thread Harvey Quamen
Hello all: I'm working my way through "Learning Perl" (3rd ed) and got stuck in ch 14 (Process Management, pages 201-202 actually, to be specific) where the "date" command is is opened through a filehandle with a piped open. Just toying around to see how it worked, I put it in a loop and was