[Chicago-talk] perl touch

tiger peng tigerpeng2001 at yahoo.com
Wed May 10 07:39:36 PDT 2006



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

> On 5/9/06 at 3:04 PM, tigerpeng2001 at yahoo.com (tiger
> peng) wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > --- 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.
> 
> Well, you said you didn't want to catch the output,
> and system is better
> for that than backticks. I didn't realize you wanted
> to play golf ;-)

Yeah. As you mentioned golf, is there a tiny tee in
perl?

> Regards,
> Andrew
> 
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