Eriksson,Magnus wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm having a slight problem using the system() function in
> ActivePerl (I'm using ActivePerl 5.8)
>
> Example:
> system("app.exe","parameter1","parameter2");
>
> This works fine executing app.exe with parameter1 &
> parameter2. The problem I have is that app.exe requires
> additional user input in form of a password to run the
> requested action. I would like my perl script to supply this
> password as well as the parameters, not prompting the user
> for the password.
>
> Is this possible? How do I go about doing this?
If you can't supply the password on the command line, but must wait for
a prompt, you then need to control both the stdin and stdout of the
process (assuming that it uses them for user i/o).
See 'perldoc IPC::Open2' or perhaps 'perldoc IPC::Open3'.
HTH
--
Brian Raven
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