On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Chuck wrote:

> I have several CGI's that use system() to get various OS details.
>
> What is the most reliable way to glean this information after using this
> command:
>
> For example:
>
> #!/bin/perl
>
> system("ls -l /tmp")
>
> How can I get that data?

Use backticks:

my $output = `ls -l /tmp`;

-- Brett
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