Thank you both so much for the input! The Perl code seems to work well now; and I picked up yet another kernel of savvy Linux
One last question, if folks have a moment.
Not furnished with network access yesterday afternoon, I fiddled for a while and found out why
Code:
from the OP didn't work either.
Seems as though an unidentified character is being "automagically" appended to the "testFile" string which is returned to Perl. The following updated line works, but it seems a bit "sloppy" to allow anything aside from a neat eq operation with a string comparison operation like this:
Code:
In the spirit of learning new stuff, is there a way of cleaning up this output with a bit of additional inline instruction to allow something like
Code:
to actually work as anticipated?
So much to learn...
Thanks again; and have a great day Linux
I get that you are learning or trying to learn. Nevertheless, I question the desire to learn something you will not have any use for it, if you wanted to do it correctly.
Calling two different system programs to pipe them together in order to evaluate the resulted output would be the hallmark of someone that probably needs to do things in a shell and not with Perl. Not considering, that what you are accepting as a valid comparison is not.
Addressing the highlighted red part of the quote: Is it not an `unidentified' character. It's a \n from running the command ls -a
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