Re: system function question

2002-09-07 Thread Tanton Gibbs
perldoc perlfaq - Original Message - From: "Brian Volk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tim Musson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 2:04 AM Subject: Re: system function question > Thank you. I didn't re

Re: system function question

2002-09-07 Thread Brian Volk
Thank you. I didn't realize you could do that... How can you find a list of all the questions in perldoc? Thanks again, Brian Tim Musson wrote: >Hey Brian, > >My MUA believes you used Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) >Gecko/20011126 Netscape6/6.2.1 >to write the f

Re: system function question

2002-09-07 Thread Tim Musson
Hey Brian, My MUA believes you used Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011126 Netscape6/6.2.1 to write the following on Saturday, September 7, 2002 at 10:00:23 PM. BV> Hi All, BV> I'm trying to write a program that will calculate the number of days BV> between

system function question

2002-09-07 Thread Brian Volk
Hi All, I'm trying to write a program that will calculate the number of days between two dates. I thought it would be easy enough to write... but I thought wrong. One of the dates is fixed: $start_date = system "date --d 20020607"; The other date is the current date: $todays_date = system "d

Re: system function question

2001-12-14 Thread Daniel Gardner
Thursday, December 13, 2001, 8:28:53 PM, Mike Gargiullo wrote: > ok... I'm writing a perl program that will use scp to copy a file from > one machine to another securely. > The problem is that scp asks for the users password... how can I have > perl answer scp's request for a password... > by h

RE: system function question

2001-12-14 Thread John, Gareth
> > ok... I'm writing a perl program that will use scp to copy a file from > one machine to another securely. > > The problem is that scp asks for the users password... how can I have > perl answer scp's request for a password... > > by hand it looks like so; > > $$scp -C test [EMAIL PROT

system function question

2001-12-13 Thread Mike Gargiullo
ok... I'm writing a perl program that will use scp to copy a file from one machine to another securely. The problem is that scp asks for the users password... how can I have perl answer scp's request for a password... by hand it looks like so; $$scp -C test [EMAIL PROTECTED]:test [EMA

Re: perl's system() function question.

2001-09-13 Thread Michael Fowler
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 08:23:10AM -0600, Michael Burnside wrote: > Using the code below works great if STDOUT is the terminal, but when > trying to pipe it to a file the two system() functions run first and the > print() statements run second, illustrated below as well. Anyone have a > clue why?

Re: perl's system() function question.

2001-09-13 Thread Robert Citek
Hello Michael, I tried to duplicate your error, but was unable to. This is my test script which is modelled on your origninal script: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; foreach my $foo qw(a b) { print "$foo\n"; system ("echo hi $foo"); print "hello $foo\n"; print "\n"; } Regardless of

perl's system() function question.

2001-09-13 Thread Michael Burnside
Using the code below works great if STDOUT is the terminal, but when trying to pipe it to a file the two system() functions run first and the print() statements run second, illustrated below as well. Anyone have a clue why? --BEGIN excerpt from code-- foreach $elem (@test_list) {