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well i wanted to just mess a little with perl and try if it can give
me the same result of a small shell script i wrote a little while ago
but it doesnt seems to work out with me . here is my shell script

#!/bin/bash DIRECTORY="/usr/bin"
for file in $DIRECTORY/*
do whatis `basename $file`
done
exit 0


i tried to run a similiar perl code by typing on command line.

perl -e "system qw (whatis /usr/bin/*)"


but its not giving me the same whatislog - what am i doing wrong ?
cheers.