On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 09:39, Owen <rc...@pcug.org.au> wrote: snip > You will probably need to specify the full path of grep and awk. > (usr/bin/grep etc) snip
Whereas that is not a bad thing to do, it is not his/her current problem. The system function is returning 0 which means that it was successful. The problem is that the system command does not capture STDOUT (which is where the data he/she want is). -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
