Re: What does this command do: "|-"

[Shilpa Arvind]

This means that, whatever the child process does will the output for the 
parent process and it will be stored in the FILE (file handle).

Shilpa


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Subject: Re: What does this command do: "|-"
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:21:37 -0400
Shilpa Arvind wrote:
HI,

I have started learning PERL recently. I wanted some explaination 
regarding the following command.

open(FILE, "|-")

What does this command do?
open

Forks with the file connected to the STDIN of the child process.

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