I would split your first system in two opens:

open FILE,"< $file" or die $! ;
open MAIL,"| mailx -s 'Title' emailaddresshere" or die $! ;

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Note: be sure to escape at signs (with \@) in emailaddresshere.

Then you could easily do:

# All-in-one-line while
print MAIL while <FILE> ;

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(which is short for while (<FILE>) { print MAIL } or, more verbose, while ($_ = <FILE>) { print MAIL $_ })

About the second question, this code snippet of mine:

open STDERR,"/dev/null" ;
warn "Test" ;
system('echo TesT') ;
system('echo TEST 1>&2') ;

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just print TesT, as one could expect, so I suppose that something in your code between the open and the system call breaks your redirection. What about using Net::Ping?

Ciao!
--bronto

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# The End, by The Beatles
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}

In reply to Re: Unix system commands to Perl by bronto
in thread Unix system commands to Perl by Anonymous Monk

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