[Chicago-talk] perl touch

tiger peng tigerpeng2001 at yahoo.com
Tue May 9 15:04:57 PDT 2006



--- Andrew Brosnan <andrew at broscom.com> wrote:

> On 5/5/06 at 2:09 PM, tigerpeng2001 at yahoo.com (tiger
> peng) wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Can you help me to "touch" a file in perl without
> > using backticks? I do not feel comfotable with
> > backticks without catching its output.
> 
> system("touch foo")

not better than backticks, as there are even more
typing.

> Regards,
> Andrew
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