Re^3: system/exec and %ENV

Unrelated to your original question, but calling out to a shell to get a listing of files is very Rube-Goldberg-ian. See opendir and readdir (and possibly stat if you're interested in the file properties ls -l shows).

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Re^4: system/exec and %ENV by eosbuddy (Scribe) on Jul 16, 2008 at 17:23 UTC
Thanks Hue-Bond and Fletch for your insights. As I mentioned, I am a n00b and "learning perl ... randal et al" and was trying out the commands in the book. As is characteristic n00bishness, I hadn't read the material immediately following the `exec` treatment (I assumed it to function much like the php directive). Thanks all for the kind help (and not yelling at me to go read the book :-) )	[reply] [d/l]