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in thread system command is not working

Thanks for the detailed analysis and step by step walk through.

I tried the way you have advised. However, this time my error file says that "/sbin/sh: system: not found". Below is the code I tried, 

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#a.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl

system('ls -lrt > a.out');

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Comand 
$ at -f /tmp/a.pl now

commands will be executed using /sbin/sh
job 1323397408.a at Fri Dec  9 13:23:28 2011

Error:

/sbin/sh: system: not found

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I am wondering why the external system command is not recognized in the perl.

Any thoughts my friend. When the perl script is executed with "At" command, it invokes a shell to execute the script. However, that shell is unable to recoginse the system command. Is that correct??

Please let me know what else I can try to resolve this issue.

Thanks In Advance

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Re^3: system command is not working
by choroba (Cardinal) on Dec 09, 2011 at 02:47 UTC
    I am wondering why the external system command is not recognized in the perl.
    The error is reported by /bin/sh, not perl. For some reason, the shell tries to interpret the script. Is the #!/usr/bin/perl line really the first one in your script?
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      I do agree with you that the error is reported by /bin/sh not the perl. The perl script has just two lines; first line is

       #!/usr/bin/perl

      and second line is

       system('ls -lrt > c.out');

      Thanks, Anand

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        The first two bytes of the file must be the characters #! You can not just have a few blank lines above your #!/usr/bin/perl line.

        This is a shell script (with line numbers showing), not a Perl script:

             1
     2  #!/usr/bin/perl
     3
     4  echo This is really a shell script!

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        If the first two bytes of the file are not #! then the system default shell will interpret the commands in the file. Thus, your error.

        Seriously, dude, you need to learn the basics of your Unix shell.

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        dos2unix

        #!/usr/bin/perl  --

        #!/usr/bin/perl -w  --

        Seriously, read the FAQs linked

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