Re: shell to perl

[rbc]

in reply to shell to perl

Did you do ...

$ perl -e 'my $env = system( qq ( whoami )) ;'

... that worked for me?

[sauoq]

... that worked for me?

Uhm... No, it didn't. In your case, $env was set to the exit status of whoami(1), probably 0.

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

[rbc]

Uhm... No, it didn't. In your case, $env was set to the exit status of whoami(1), probably 0.
Yeah so ... does that mean it "didn't work"?
*Geez*


$ perl -e 'my $env = system( qq ( whoami )) ;'
rbc
$ perl -e 'my $env = system( qq ( whoru )) ;'
wrong