Re: shell to perl

Did you do ...

$ perl -e 'my $env = system( qq ( whoami )) ;'
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... that worked for me?

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Re: Re: shell to perl by sauoq (Abbot) on Jan 24, 2003 at 00:31 UTC
... that worked for me? Uhm... No, it didn't. In your case, `$env` was set to the exit status of whoami(1), probably 0. -sauoq "My two cents aren't worth a dime.";	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: shell to perl by rbc (Curate) on Jan 24, 2003 at 02:45 UTC
Uhm... No, it didn't. In your case, $env was set to the exit status of whoami(1), probably 0. Yeah so ... does that mean it "didn't work"? Geez `$ perl -e 'my $env = system( qq ( whoami )) ;' rbc $ perl -e 'my $env = system( qq ( whoru )) ;' wrong` [download]	[reply] [d/l]