[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I had the same problem. I have a small script to extract my
> dhcp IP address from ifconfig. Under LM8 it didn't seem to
> work unless I made perl add a newline. Then I tried this:
>
> fred=`getip.pl`
> echo $fred
>
> and $fred did have the IP address. I don't think this is a
> perl problem but something to do with the shell.
>
>
>
Thats exactly it!
Look - this is done on that same lm72 box that did not work before:
bash-2.04$ tcsh
[rusty@tempe-dhcp4 ~]$ perl
{ $| = 1; my $i = 1; print $i , " asdf";}
1 asdf[rusty@tempe-dhcp4 ~]$
^^^^^^^my prompt^^^^^^
so with tcsh we get the expected results.
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