[Boston.pm] taking in info from command-line command

OK, so I know there's an easy-ish way to handle this situation. But I'm currently running in circles, not finding the solution. Basically what I'm trying to do is run a system command (with either `command` or system("commnad") ) and retrieve the printed result form the command into a variable of

Re: [Boston.pm] taking in info from command-line command

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > OK, so I know there's an easy-ish way to handle this situation. But I'm > currently running in circles, not finding the solution. Basically what I'm > trying to do is run a system command (with either `command` or > system("commnad") ) and retrieve th

Re: [Boston.pm] taking in info from command-line command

Thanks Tim, Though this was not the solution to my problem, I beleive that it helped me find that solution. I needed to specify the full path of the command I was trying. Since I was not specifying the full path I was getting an error message. After adding that code snippet I was informed