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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting perl/unix: script in command line works but not in perl Post 302487123 by kpddong on Tuesday 11th of January 2011 01:19:26 PM
Old 01-11-2011
perl/unix: script in command line works but not in perl
so in unix this command works works and shows me a list of directories
Code:
find . -name \*.xls -exec dirname {} \; | sort -u | > list.txt

but when i try running a perl script to run this command

Code:
my $query = 'find . -name \*.xls -exec dirname {} \; | sort -u | > list.txt';
system($query);

list.txt is created but is blank with nothing there.

help?
Last edited by vbe; 01-12-2011 at 04:57 AM.. Reason: more code tags...
 

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mvdir

mvdir(1M)						  System Administration Commands						 mvdir(1M)

NAME

       mvdir - move a directory

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/mvdir dirname name

DESCRIPTION

       mvdir  moves  directories within a file system. dirname must be a directory. If name does not exist, it will be created as a directory.	If
       name does exist, and is a directory, dirname will be created as name/dirname. dirname and  name may not be on the same path; that  is,  one
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OPERANDS

       dirname	       The name of the directory that is to be moved to another directory in the filesystem.

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		       the same path as dirname.

USAGE

       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of mvdir when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).

EXIT STATUS

       0	Successful operation.

       >0	Operation failed.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

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SEE ALSO

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SunOS 5.10							    14 Mar 1997 							 mvdir(1M)
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