Hi Friends, I have the below code.
#!/usr/local/perl5.6.1/bin/perl print STDOUT "===============================Before system call===========================\n\n"; system("ls -al"); print STDOUT "\n\n===========================After System Call============================\n\n"; When I execute the code from command prompt, the output is, ===============================Before system call=========================== total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 mkodiche cisco 96 Dec 23 21:54 . drwxr-xr-x 4 mkodiche cisco 1024 Dec 23 19:36 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 mkodiche cisco 465 Dec 23 22:00 a.txt -rwxrwxr-x 1 mkodiche cisco 279 Dec 23 22:00 background.pl -rwxrwxr-x 1 mkodiche cisco 92 Dec 23 21:53 loop.pl ===========================After System Call============================ But, when I redirect the output to a file, the contents of the file are total 6 drwxr-xr-x 2 mkodiche cisco 96 Dec 23 21:54 . drwxr-xr-x 4 mkodiche cisco 1024 Dec 23 19:36 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 mkodiche cisco 0 Dec 23 22:34 a.txt -rwxrwxr-x 1 mkodiche cisco 279 Dec 23 22:00 background.pl -rwxrwxr-x 1 mkodiche cisco 92 Dec 23 21:53 loop.pl ===============================Before system call=========================== ===========================After System Call============================ As seen above, the system call output is displayed first and then the print statement. Why it is behaving strangely? Any idea? Thanks is advance, Mallik. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>