in reply to gzip command always returns -1
Perhaps you should be using system to execute the call to gzip, rather than backticks. If you are not interested in the STDOUT from the call (which is returned by using backticks), system will execute the call, and return the exit code of the executed process. See system
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Re^2: gzip command always returns -1
by jyoshv (Novice) on Jan 17, 2005 at 21:18 UTC |