RE: system() output question.

2002-02-22 Thread Nikola Janceski 

man perlipc
line 308 "Using open() for IPC"

use
open(COMMAND, "your command | ");

now you can read from 

besure to 
close COMMAND;

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I would like to be able to take the output of system(some cmd) and send it
to a filehandle.  How is this possilbe?


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RE: system() output question.

2002-02-22 Thread Timothy Johnson 


Maybe system() isn't really what you want then.  Try using backticks:

$scalar = `some cmd`;
print OUTFILE $scalar;

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system() output question.

2002-02-22 Thread Wert, Nathaniel 

I would like to be able to take the output of system(some cmd) and send it to a 
filehandle.  How is this possilbe?


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