>> HI, >> >> I have started learning PERL recently. I wanted some explaination >> regarding the following command. >> >> open(FILE, "|-") >> > > Perl implicitly forks a child process. the FILE file handle is opened with > write access in the parent process. what the parent process writes to FILE > can be read by the child process via STDIN. this allows you to do simple > ipc communication between the parent and the child process. for example:
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