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[Anon]

when using system(); can you hide its output?
or is their a similar command that does that?
Thanks!

[polson]

Consider exec() too, it would be more appropriate if you don't want to return results. Also, taken from system() in manual is as follows :

System() is just like the C version of the function in that it executes the given command and outputs the result. If a variable is provided as the second argument, then the return status code of the executed command will be written to this variable.

[Anon]

Either way I do it, system(command,$var); or exec() is still returns the output onto the screen..

[Anon]

Also look at the (backtick) operator. You can either ignore its output, or set it to a variable ($output =ls -l`).