Re: One for the Wisest Monks

If you really want to use system commands and not straight perl, try:

system "touch $num.bat";
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Has the advantage of not doing anything to the file (except changing it's timestamp) if it already exists.

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•Re: Re: One for the Wisest Monks by merlyn (Sage) on Jun 02, 2002 at 19:01 UTC
`system "touch $num.bat";` [download] But that unnecessarily starts a separate process, and is subject to security issues regarding the contents of `$num`. Much safer and faster: `open DUMMY, ">>$num.bat"; close DUMMY;` [download] -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: One for the Wisest Monks by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jun 03, 2002 at 10:55 UTC
`system touch => "$num.bat";` [download] doesn't suffer from security issues regarding the content of `$num`. As for "much faster", I'm not quite convinced. You're doing disk I/O here, and that's likely to be the bottleneck anyway. Abigail	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: One for the Wisest Monks by TexasTess (Beadle) on Jun 02, 2002 at 12:12 UTC
I like it!	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: One for the Wisest Monks by TexasTess (Beadle) on Jul 08, 2002 at 00:44 UTC
Have it implemented and it's working GREAT! Thanks again! TexasTess "Great Spirits Often Encounter Violent Opposition From Mediocre Minds" --Albert Einstein	[reply]