.
Anyone else have any comments?
regards
Mark Kneen
- Original Message -
From: Matthew Blacklow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 12:44 AM
Subject: Capturing STDOUT of system launched process
I am writing a script at the moment which among others
is probably a better way than this but I find this the easiest.
Anyone else have any comments?
regards
Mark Kneen
- Original Message -
From: Matthew Blacklow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 12:44 AM
Subject: Capturing STDOUT of system
I am writing a script at the moment which among others things creates
another process using the system call.
What I need to do is capture the screen output of this process into a string
variable so that it can latter be manipulaterd. ie. capture the STDOUT.
Any help, suggestions or sample code
On Sep 27, Matthew Blacklow said:
What I need to do is capture the screen output of this process into a string
variable so that it can latter be manipulaterd. ie. capture the STDOUT.
Several options:
# qx() and `` are the same
$output = `prog arg1 arg2`;
$output = qx(prog arg1 arg2);
Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Of course, all of these should have error-checking:
$x = `...` or die can't run ...: $!;
open OUTPUT, ... | or die can't run ...: $!;
Don't forget to check the close for errors. If the pipe fails for some reason
close returns 0 and $? has
