[wplug] Perl System Funcion

[terry mcintyre]

Matthew T. Engel wrote:
> Something like System(“cd /home/$user/$web_root && ls), does an ls on 
> /home/$user rather than /home/$user/$web_root.  The system() function 
> returns 0, I get the same thing if I try system(cd /home/$user && cd 
> $web_root && ls).



Test script:

$user="terry";
$web_root="Desktop";

$result = system("cd /home/$user/$web_root && ls");

print "$result";

... worked as expected; it listed the contents of /home/terry/Desktop

 
Terry McIntyre <terrymcintyre at yahoo.com>
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