On 02/16/2007 07:25 PM, Jeff Pang wrote:
The command "perldoc -f open" shows you how to do get the output from a command without starting a shell.Do you mean open a pipe? It still need to fork a child process for running the external commands.
Read the "safe pipe opens" section of "perldoc perlipc"; IOW, use the "list" form of the open command.
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