10-08-2008
You need to chomp the output from backticks; it contains a trailing newline.
Beyond that, if it still doesn't work, it would be most helpful if you could say how it doesn't work.
(In the die message you should probably include the name of the file and the value of $!. -- this improves troubleshooting tremendously.)
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