[H-GEN] Perl question

[Tony Nugent]

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On Fri Jul 12 2002 at 16:22, Scott Pullen wrote:

> ($ret_val1, $ret_val2) = ( `small_shell_script`);
> 
> The first value gets the entire printed value and the second remains un-
> initialised.  I can't qw() the shell script because that of course quotes it and
> doesn't run the script.
> 
> Does anyone know how to get around this problem.  Failing that has anyone got
> a perl iostat script   :~)3

($ret_val1, $ret_val2) = split(',',`small_shell_script`,2);

Cheers
Tony

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