A litle affectation question in Perl

[dnux67]

How could I affect the system function return value to a scalar?

Like if i do this

$folder="/home/user/data"
system "du -s $folder" # How could i get this return value into a scalar


Thank you for your answer.

S

[GunnarH]

How could I affect the system function return value to a scalar?

You can't. Use backticks (or the qx operator) instead.

[miller]

How could I affect the system function return value to a scalar?

Next time, just read the documentation:

http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/system.html

It talks in detail about what you want, and the way to acheive it doing as GunnerH says.