[ale] System in Perl

[Geoffrey]

Terry Bailey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any way to place the results of the following into a Perl 
> variable without opening and closing  a file?  In addition, this 
> would be used in Javascript function.
> 
> 		system("stat test | grep -i access | grep -v Uid | cut -b8-27");

Try:

my $var = `stat test | grep -i access | grep -v Uid | cut -b8-27';

There are better tools available to you in perl to get this info though.

> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Terry Bailey
> 
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