On Dec 4, J-E-N said: >below is my script but its not working as it should > >system("command") or die "command failed: $?\n";
system() returns 0 on SUCCESS, not failure. system("command") == 0 or die "command failed: $! ($?)"; perldoc -f system -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]