[Chicago-talk] perl touch

Kent Cowgill kent at c2group.net
Tue May 9 16:50:32 PDT 2006



On Tue, 9 May 2006, tiger peng wrote:

> > On 5/5/06 at 2:09 PM, tigerpeng2001 at yahoo.com (tiger
> > peng) wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.

Do you want to capture results?  Because you can with backticks:

$return = `touch foo`;

Maybe if we're all misunderstanding your intent, you could perhaps try to
clarify what you're after?

-Kent


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