Re: trying to get line-by-line output of a command pipe in perl

[Shawn H Corey]

On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 15:02:13 -0800
Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolc...@gmail.com> wrote:

> open my $fh, @cmd, "|" or die "blah: $!\n"; fails, "Unknown open()
> mode '5'"

If you use an array, it is _not_ sent thru the shell. Try the
three-argument open:

    open my $fh, '-|', @cmd or die "blah: $!\n"; fails, "Unknown open()
    mode '5'";


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Don't stop where the ink does.
        Shawn

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