Perl and Linux Commands?

[RobinVossen]

Hi I am coding in perl.
And I need to print the outcome of ls /home/$USERNAME/dirs

how can i do that?
Since well ive looked on Google and they say system("ls /home/$UNAME/dirs")
but that doesnt work :/

Oh, well that might be since its for a webpage.. So well does anyone know?

[Javasnob]

A lot of webhosts disable a regular user account from running system and other related functions. You should look into the documentation provided by your host.

[RobinVossen]

I am my own host =P

[Javasnob]

Excellent. What server are you using? Apache? Lighttpd?

[RobinVossen]

Well its for a webmin module.
And I do recall that webmin worked with TinyServ or something like that?

[bseenu]

system just returns the exit status of the command executed.

If you want to capture the output, you have to include the command in backticks ``

ex : $result = `ls /home/$username/dirs`


Thank You,

-srini

[RobinVossen]

Sorry, but it doesnt work..
I have tryed to do:
$homedir = "/home/user/";
$output = system('ls $homedir');
$output = 'ls $homedir';

They both dont work. though I get that system thingy when i do the first one. I get 512 with all folders Ive tryed..

[bseenu]

you are using single quotes instead of back ticks(`)

[RobinVossen]

I guess..
I am using '
I also tryed " once..
Though ive never tryed the ` I just thought..
So I try that now..

When I do that last one.. It gives No Output what so ever..

[thx-]

The ' and " are single and double quotes respectively.

The ` and ~ belong to the 'tilde' key (which if you have a standard qwerty k/board should be 'typically' directly above your Tab key.

You should be using the italicised quote of the tilde key.

I trust you now understand the difference between a 'single-quote' and the `italicised single quote`.