Re: Re: executing commands and getting output

Hi, I tried the $output = 'command' method but it doesn't seem to work. $output is empty and does not contain anything.
With the open command, could you give me a clue of what does it actually do ?
Thanks for your help

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Re: Re: Re: executing commands and getting output by rnahi (Curate) on Sep 05, 2003 at 08:29 UTC
$output = `command`; # ^ ^ # \| \| [download] The quotes around command are backticks (ASCII 96, hex 60), not single quotes. As an alternative, you may use `$output = qx(command);` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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