[Chicago-talk] perl touch
Andrew Brosnan
andrew at broscom.com
Tue May 9 15:59:03 PDT 2006
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 ;-)
Regards,
Andrew
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