You can't store to a variable, since your program is no longer there :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yacketta, Ronald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 4:10 pm
Subject: exec()
> Folks,
>
> I have been searching perldoc, books and some online resources as
> to a way
> to redirect output from exec() from stdout to a file (or possibly
> an array)
>
> I am running the following (Thanxs to Paul for his skeleton code)
> exec ( 'egrep'. "-c", $lookFor, @{$LOGS[($_ -1)]} )
>
> basically, it is just forking a egrep -c looking for certain
> patterns in the
> array of files.
> the output is spewed on STDOUT, which is normal BUT I would like
> to have
> that output
> either (1) spewed to a flat file (2) spewed to an array/variable
> (preferablythis option)
>
> Regards,
> Ron
>
