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Old 06-28-2010
Java problem using CAT command in PERL
Hi All,

I was trying to run the cat command using perl SCRIPT for my daily reports.

However cat command is not working in PERL.

please help me.

Code:
cat FILE1.txt |cut -d "|" -f1 >INPUT1.txt

cat FILE2.txt|wc -l *9111*|>INPUT2.txt

paste INPUT1,INPUT2 >OUTPUT.txt



Thanks in advance

Regards
Adaleru
Last edited by pludi; 06-28-2010 at 02:15 AM..
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Old 06-28-2010
make the script executable.
Or use backticks.
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Old 06-28-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by sandy1028
make the script executable.
Or use backticks.
Hi Nandy,

Thanks for your reply.

However its working fine in unix box, if i try to invoke this command in to perl its not working.
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Old 06-28-2010
What error do you get? And why invoke the cat command at all if Perl is perfectly capable of text processing (hint: it was designed for this)?

Aside from that, your second command doesn't really make sense, as wc either reads from files or from stdin.
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