Hi, I'm new here and a perl novice.

I've a perl script where I use the system() command in a loop. Through the first couple loop iterations, the system() command is successful. Eventually, however, all system() commands fail to work.

Notes on setup: I'm running perl 5.8.5 on a lin64 machine.

Things I've tried:
(1) Printing out the line (because it contains variables). It prints exactly how I desire it to. I even run the printed string independently on my system and it works fine.
(2) Using backticks. The first missed system() complains about a missing file, but the file is there and permissions are set properly. Again, if I run the string outside of the perl script, everything works fine.

My thought is that there are limitations to the system() command that I don't know about. Been stuck on this for about a week. Would appreciate any feedback you guys can offer

In reply to Any limitations to system() command? by magic_yang

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