From: Uri Guttman on
>>>>> "JWK" == John W Krahn <jwkrahn(a)example.com> writes:

JWK> Uri Guttman wrote:
>>>>>>> "JWK" == John W Krahn<jwkrahn(a)example.com> writes:
>>
JWK> my $str = shift or die "No argument provided\n";
>>
JWK> print `tac $str`;
>>
>> well, if you are going to fork out, why need the backticks and print?
>>
>> system "tac $str" ;

JWK> Cause then I would have to do all the system error checking (which you
JWK> neglected to do) and besides, print() with no filehandle does not
JWK> necessarily go to STDOUT. :-)

i didn't expect the spanish inquisition!

<cue michael palin who is always late>

uri

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