in reply to put data in dynamic file
You're better off opening a file and printing to it straight from Perl than relying on shelling out to echo or another command to do the same thing - shelling out (using system or *cough* backticks) uses another process, is less portable and takes away your script's full control over what you're doing.my $userid = "rsennat"; # assume userid is set to a var my $string = "$str1,$str2"; # NB: using double quotes so that the $userid is interpolated # Single quotes would protect the literal string like \$userid my $tmp_file = "/tmp/$userid"; open(TMPFILE, ">> $tmp_file") || die "Can't write to '$tmp_file': $!\n"; print TMPFILE $string; close(TMPFILE);
The only minus with doing it this way is that you have 3 lines of code instead of 1, but I'd take that hit any day for the improvement it makes to the efficiency, security, reliability and portability of the program!
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Re^2: put data in dynamic file
by rsennat (Beadle) on Dec 13, 2005 at 09:37 UTC |