I've never heard of "plod"... what is it?

In general, shell builtin commands are only meaningful in the context of an interactive shell, so trying to use them from within a perl script usually won't make sense. Note that each "system()" call in perl invokes a new, distinct shell process that executes whatever command is passed in the call, so there is no shell command history in that context -- in other words, even if the "history" builtin works from within the system call, it will just return an empty result.

Maybe if you provide a snippet of your code, and/or some more detail about what you're trying to accomplish, someone here can suggest a simple way to do what you want.

As a wild guess at that, I wonder if maybe your current perl script is executing a bunch of system calls, and you want to log the all of them; why not just open a log file at the start of the script, and each time you make a system call, print a line to that log?

In reply to Re: help on system function by graff
in thread help on system function by Anonymous Monk

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