Re: calling an external program, from within a perl script

Have you tried passing the arguments to mkfs like this:

system('/sbin/mkfs', '-t', 'xfs', $device);

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Re: Re: calling an external program, from within a perl script by nick (Sexton) on Aug 10, 2001 at 10:58 UTC
yes, i tried putting the args for system in an array like that, but this makes no difference. - Nick	[reply]