dearest wise monks,

I have a script where I want to put a list of files into an array. I tried it as easy as:

my @dateiliste = `ls $datenDir/*.xml`;

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This leaves the script running forever doing nothing. To make sure it is this line of code I added :

print LOGFILE "listing des verz. $datenDir\n";
my @dateiliste = `ls $datenDir/*.xml`;
my $s = @dateiliste;
print LOGFILE "$s Dateien im verz. $datenDir\n";

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In my logfile I find everything until "listing des verz. /tmp". The script is running and running and pretyy sure will be running even after I become a monk.

So I tried directly in terminal:

perl -e '$dd = "/tmp";@a = `ls $dd/*.xml`;$s = @a;print "$s Dateien";'

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Sure enough this works fine and gives the exspected answer.

So why is the backtick-ls working with perl -e but not within a script?

Thanks in advance,
Mc

P.S.: I tried perl -w. It gives no output.

In reply to file listing within skript not working by McSvenster

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