----- Original Message -----
From: "Harry Putnam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: make CPAN::Shell->i; print to a filehandle
> Mark G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
> >> $target = "somefile";
> >> if($opt_r){
> >> open(FH,">$target") or die "Cannot open $target: $!";
> >> print FH CPAN::Shell->i;
> > you can try IPC::Open2.
>
> That looks like the stuff. Apparently the pod author felt it was
> criminal to supply even a very basic example. Thereby creating a
> situation where anyone not already a programmer must stumble around
> endlessly trying to figure out the syntax to get some use of it.
This is posix stuff mostly
>
> I really do appreciate those few outlaws who put usefull examples in
> the documentation.
why not if u got time
>
> Its not clear to me what to do after this:
> $pid = open2($wtr, $rdr, 'CPAN::Shell->i');
>
> while(<WHAT GOES HERE>){
> print AND_HERE "$_\n";
> }
that would be
$pid = open2($wtr, $rdr, 'CPAN::Shell->i');
foreach( @module ){
print $wtr "$_\n";
print "shell output: $_\n" while <$rdr>;
}
> FH is not normally represented as a scalar variable.
you can do that
> What role does $pid play?
you can get exit status,error,signal of the child
hth,
Mark G>
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