#!/usr/bin/perl -w sub file_to_string { my($file) = @_; my @string; open FILE, $file or die("$! $file"); @string = ; close FILE; return join("", @string); } use Fcntl; sub string_to_file { my($string, $file) = @_; sysopen(FILE, $file,O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC|O_CREAT, 0600) or die("$! $file"); print FILE $string; close FILE; } string_to_file("blabla $$ \n", "/tmp/imapsync_t01"); print file_to_string("/tmp/imapsync_t01"); #unlink("/tmp/imapsync_t01");