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A litle affectation question in Perl

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How could I affect the system function return value to a scalar?

Like if i do this

$folder="/home/user/data"
system "du -s $folder" # How could i get this return value into a scalar


Thank you for your answer.

S
Nov 24 '06 #1
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GunnarH
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How could I affect the system function return value to a scalar?
You can't. Use backticks (or the qx operator) instead.
Nov 24 '06 #2
miller
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How could I affect the system function return value to a scalar?
Next time, just read the documentation:

http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/system.html

It talks in detail about what you want, and the way to acheive it doing as GunnerH says.
Nov 24 '06 #3

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