Re: system call how-to

[elsiddik]

now im i managed to use File::Basename. with this code

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;

use File::Basename;

my $path  = "/usr/bin/*";
my $files = basename($path);
my $dir   = dirname($path);

print "dir is $dir , files is $files\n";

system "whatis $path";

the output of $files is listening all files in the directory - so far so good , but im still stuck with the same problem - the script is not giving me the real whatis command Output. any idea?

[cdarke]

Check that whatis exists in your Bourne shell. It could be an old version that does not have it (system uses the Bourne shell on UNIX by default). Check the return value, or $?.
If you want to capture the output in Perl, maybe you should be using qx (or back-ticks) instead?