Ya that is right but I want to avoid the whole file thing. I have to do this very often in some testing scripts and it slows down the whole test a great deal. So I am looking for an alternative to it.
Thanks Mayank -----Original Message----- From: Brett W. McCoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 1:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Redirecting STDOUT to a variable... On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks, but I need to preserve the value returned by $mycommand also. I > guess using backticks won't allow me to do that . > Mostly what I need to do is read from STDOUT into a variable. But I don't > know how to do that. Then just redirect STDOUT of the command into a file and then open the file, like you were doing. That's the simplest way of doing it. -- Brett http://www.chapelperilous.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HOW YOU CAN TELL THAT IT'S GOING TO BE A ROTTEN DAY: #15 Your pet rock snaps at you. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
