I'm trying to call egrep from a perl script using the backtick operator
-- I need to parse the output from egrep to see if additional information
is contained, something like:
$parseFile = `egrep -d skip \\<form\s*.*?action\s*=\s*\"?someFile.html
2>/dev/null`
if ($parseFile =~ /method\s*=\s*\"?post/ ) { do this; }
(I realize I could probably write a comprehensive regular expression, but
I have other reasons for doing this...)
Basically, I have the following question(s) about the backtick operators:
In a scalar string context, will a shell command called by the backtick
operator return ALL lines? i.e., if egrep returns multiple lines, will
$parseFile contain all the lines? I know that in a list context, each item
in the list will contain a single line -- but can it work this way as well?
Thanks,
Matthew
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