RE: Beginner's question

[Gerald Richter]

>
> Does the same concern opening pipes (i.e. commands, not named
> pipes)  as files?
>
> open(FILE,"cat \</etc/passwd |")
> while (\<FILE>) {
>       print OUT $_;
> }
>
> doesn't produce any output....
>

Embperl makes no difference here, but you may check the return value from
open and $! . Maybe you don't have permission to execute cat as www server
user, or cat is not in your path.

Gerald


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