Dave, If you change open(INPUT, "<'metastat'"); to open(INPUT, "<metastat"); []s Marcos On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Anth Courtney <anth.courtney@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Dave, > > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Dave Martini wrote: > > > I'd like to run a command called metastat and have it search its output > > for the word Ok but what I have so far doesn't work. Anyone have any > > suggestions? > > > > #!/bin/perl > > $target = "Ok"; > > open(INPUT, "<'metastat'"); > > Change this line to > > open(INPUT, "metastat|"); > > > while (<INPUT>) { > > if (/$target/) { > > print "Found $target\n"; > > } > > } > > close(INPUT); > > cheers, > Anth > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list