Hi all. I am running a perl backup script like thus:

$prog = "/usr/sbin/ufsdump";  # dump program
$level = "0uf";         # level of dump
$part = "/webdocs";     #partition to dump
$dev = "/dev/rmt/0un";  #device to dump to

$blah = `$prog $level $dev $part`;

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$blah returns nothing. The dump runs fine, but the output from the dump does not fill $blah. whereas I do a:

@ls = `ls -la`;

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@ls will contain all lines returned by ls -la!

What have I overlooked with my dump, I have tried: 

@blah = `$prog $level $dev $part`;

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but alas, still no luck. Is there a better way to do it?

Edit kudra, 2002-01-10 Replaced BR with CODE

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