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I thought I'd start a new thread for this one:
my $backup = system( $rdiff, @args);
Could I use $backup to write to my logfile?
Gavin.

Hi Perl Gurus!
I am collecting temperature data from the CPUs in my system.  I want
to write this data into a comma-seperated text file, like so:
CPU1,65,63,62,64

Pothula, Giridhar wrote:

This is my first real go at a perl script. Thoughts?
Thanks.

Folks,
I've run into a couple of issues with use and was hoping someone could
help me come up with a solution.
First, I use a specific module in a work environment to set some global

Hello everybody out there using Perl- Im doing a perl scripts, which
objective is to parse text.
I am looking for a way of creating a "perl binary", my intention is that
no one can read the scripts in a human readable way.

I was trying to run System command from my perl Script . As i have pipe ( |
) symbol in my shell command perl thows an error .
Anybody help me how to run shell command in Perl
Here is the command :  system "cat $filename | wc -l";

I have a problem in deleting all the lines in a file and saving it .
Actually my log file keep appending all the messages for that i need to
clean it up i.e delete all lines in it save it . when i do this initially
file shows zero bytes , but as soon as the next message appends ,, ...

I've google'd and CPAN'd and no luck. Is there a tool out there that
will generate a regular expression based on a series of string inputs
that are similar but have parts that differ. Ideally I'd like to be able
to create an regex generator object into which I can feed strings. Then

OK here comes the newbie question.
I found this in a template for creating subroutines, this is the base
that is created when you use the template to create the subroutine.
So now the newbie part, why would you place "my  $par1 = shift;" in the

I run the following commands but ALWAYS get a 1 returned from the
system "scp ... ".  
Has anyone else experienced similar problems with ssh? Or see anything I'm
doing wrong?

I am trying to get a qmail install working.  When I try to install
spamassassin-tools I get this:
error: Failed dependencies:
       perl(HTTP::Cookies) is needed by spamassassin-tools-2.63-1

See if anyone out there can help again.
Is there a Perl function for escape special characters in a variable easily? So I don't need to use s/../... explicitly for each of them?
Thanks, Yw

I'm a newbie to Perl, see if anyone of you can kindly help?
How should I add 8 hours to a date-time variable that's keeping the unix time?
Thanks, CHAN

List.
I am in the process of creating a PERL program that does the following:
1. Slurp a file into an array (too late to go back on this as all of the other logic I have already built uses the array, 400 + lines)
2. Iterate through the array and assign values based on matches.