Just to toot my own horn, I'd like to mention that I wrote the
System2 module, with an eye toward running commands, and getting
isolated STDOUT/STDERR as well as exit values. Well, it makes me
happy.
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 03:45:23PM -0500, J. J. Horner wrote:
> * Kairam, Raj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
Use the CHILD_ERROR $? to see what happend, for example
system(" some command ");
if ( $? )
{
then figure out what happend..
}
Note that you'll have to see what your command returns and parse that.
See perlvar(1), there is some shifting around to be done as well.
But I am not sure
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 03:08:16PM -0500, Kairam, Raj wrote:
> In my perl script I have a line like this.
> system( "'/usr/bin/lp -dhp4si /tmp/plotreq.txt' > /tmp/plotid.txt");
>
> hp4si is the destination printer.
> /tmp/plotreq.txt is small text file to be sent to the printer.
> /tmp/plotid.tx
From: Kairam, Raj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> system( "'/usr/bin/lp -dhp4si /tmp/plotreq.txt' > /tmp/plotid.txt");
> If I run the command /usr/bin/lp -dhp4si /tmp/plotreq.txt > /tmp/plotid.txt
> it is fine as a command line.
I may be missing something, but it looks to me like you are running a differe
* Kairam, Raj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011130 15:10]:
> In my perl script I have a line like this.
> system( "'/usr/bin/lp -dhp4si /tmp/plotreq.txt' > /tmp/plotid.txt");
>
> hp4si is the destination printer.
> /tmp/plotreq.txt is small text file to be sent to the printer.
> /tmp/plotid.txt is the ou
In my perl script I have a line like this.
system( "'/usr/bin/lp -dhp4si /tmp/plotreq.txt' > /tmp/plotid.txt");
hp4si is the destination printer.
/tmp/plotreq.txt is small text file to be sent to the printer.
/tmp/plotid.txt is the output of lp command ( just one line to indicate job
id )to be s
