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From: fuchs@it.uka.de (Harald Fuchs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Fast file scan
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Date: 9 Oct 90 16:07:20 GMT
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lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>open(FIND,"find topdir -type f -print|") || die "Can't run find: $!\n";
Shouldn't that read something like
  $p = open(FIND,"find topdir -type f -print|");
  $x = $!;
  die "Can't run find: $x\n" unless kill 0, $p;
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Harald Fuchs <fuchs@it.uka.de> <fuchs%it.uka.de@relay.cs.net> ...