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Re: [Boston.pm] taking in info from command-line command: msg#00027

Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] taking in info from command-line command
On 7/5/05, Alex Brelsfoard <alexb-mgqofMCKMGJWk0Htik3J/w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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 the printed result form the command into a
> variable of some sort.

Sounds like you should try IPC::Open2 ("open a process for both
reading and writing") or IPC::Open3 ("open a process for reading,
writing, and error handling").

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Ian Langworth


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