--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Checking " if (system($touchcmd) && system($chkstat)) " as
> condition. Is this a valid one? also was trying to get this done
> buy calling subroutine.
>
No. Generally when an unix command was executed successfully, it will
return 0. ie,
$ perl -le '$s = system("ls -l >/dev/null");print $s'
0
so,you'd better use the condition with $? variable (though it's not
absolute),
$ perl -le 'system("ls -l >/dev/null");if ($?==0) {print "true"}'
true
Best Regards,
Jeff (joy) Peng
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