I've never programmed before, but needed to write a very simple webapp for work.
I'm trying to get this dig query to work:
dig @8.8.8.8 +nocomments +nostats +noquestion +nocmd google.com any
With this bit of perl:
$dig = `/usr/bin/dig \@8.8.8.8 +nocomments +nostats +noquestion +nocmd $query any`;
Except it doesn't seem to recognize "any" at the end of dig and gives me:
sh: line 1: any: command not found
What stupidly simple thing am I doing incorrectly?
I bet $query has a newline in it, causing your shell to see any as a new command.
Try doing chomp $query; before your system call to remove the newline. More on chomp.