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From:
Brad Lhotsky
Date:
April 15, 2009 06:38
Subject:
Re: Syntax query
Message ID:
20090415133820.GA15197@divisionbyzero.net
system() returns the exit code of the commands you executed.  In this
case, your command was successful and thus your "zero" return.

http://tinyurl.com/chrdoo

If you're using Perl, you can do the processing that awk and grep are
doing as well.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 06:50:01PM +0530, Rajini Naidu wrote:
>    Hi,
>     
>     I am trying to execute the below line in the perl program and returns a
>    value 0.
>     
>    my $test2 = "";
>    my $include =  "file";
>     
>    $test2 = system("/usr/atria/bin/cleartool desc \$include | grep created |
>    awk -F\" \" \'{print \$2}\' | cut -b 1-9 ");
>     
>    The value returned by $test2 is 0. I suspect grep and awk commands are not
>    getting executed.
>    Is there any thing wrong in the syntax ????
>     
>    -Rajini 
>     
>     

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Brad Lhotsky

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