ulimit and system command

2005-09-23 Thread steve tran
Hello I am noticing a strange phenomenon and I would appreciate it if someone helped me understand it in my shell when I execute ulimit -a I get % ulimit -a time(seconds)unlimited file(blocks) unlimited data(kbytes) unlimited stack(kbytes)unlimited

System, shell question

2005-08-26 Thread steve tran
Hello I am a beginner to perl and I have a question if I want to use system or open or backticks to execute a system command, like system($cmd arg1); ( with system for instance) and the $cmd which is a prog takes another program called in arg1 , and that program(arg1) requires STDIN, and I

System, open, SHELL redirect

2005-08-26 Thread steve tran
to a file system(exe1 exe2 out); or `exe1 exe2 1out`; Now the problem in this case is exe2's STDOUT will be redirected to out file as well, what if I want output of exe2 to go to STDOUT ? --- Binish A R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: steve tran wrote: Hello I am a beginner to perl and I have