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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl script 'system' linking to local shell script not working Post 302362407 by pludi on Friday 16th of October 2009 01:37:06 AM
Old 10-16-2009
Perl doesn't auto-complain if something non-critical doesn't work. If you want to call a shell script, but it can't find it (say, because you forgot to type the '.sh' that's part of the filename), system will fail with an error code, which you as the programmer have to catch and act upon (example in perldoc -f system).

And the ouput of the file can be written simpler as
Code:
open (HTMLFILE, "hellow.html");
while ($buffer = <HTMLFILE>)
{
    print $buffer;
}
close HTMLFILE;

or even
Code:
open (HTMLFILE, "hellow.html");
print while HTMLFILE;
close HTMLFILE;

 

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DESCRIPTION

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EXAMPLES

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