Re: System, shell question

2005-08-26 Thread John W. Krahn
steve tran wrote: > Hello Hello, > I am a beginner to perl and I have a question > > if I want to use system or open or backticks to > execute a system command, > like system("$cmd arg1"); ( with system for instance) > > and the $cmd which is a prog takes another program > called in arg1 , a

Re: System, shell question

2005-08-26 Thread Binish A R
steve tran wrote: Hello I am a beginner to perl and I have a question if I want to use system or open or backticks to execute a system command, like system("$cmd arg1"); ( with system for instance) and the $cmd which is a prog takes another program called in arg1 , and that program(arg

System, shell question

2005-08-26 Thread steve tran
Hello I am a beginner to perl and I have a question if I want to use system or open or backticks to execute a system command, like system("$cmd arg1"); ( with system for instance) and the $cmd which is a prog takes another program called in arg1 , and that program(arg1) requires STDIN, and I