On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:25:18AM -0700 Christopher Spears wrote:
> I want to catch the various parts of the output of the
> date command. Here is my script:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use strict;
>
> my $date = system("date");
with: my $date = localtime;
woks fine.
> What is going on? Does this mean that nothing was
> captured?
hth
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Gérard
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