Try backticks instead of the system() call to capture the outputh. E.g. my @results = `$cmd`;
-----Original Message----- From: Sayed, Irfan (Irfan) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 7:48 AM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: File opeartions help Hi, I am executing following code. i need to send the output of system($cmd); command to the file . how do i do that <snip> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>