On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 01:38 , Mat Harrison wrote:

> hi, i am trying to get an email to feed a perl script.
>
> I have aliased the email address to pipe to the program but nothing. What
> variables should I be looking in to get the data that is piped? for 
> example,
> command line arguments are in @ARGV. Is it something to do with $&?
[..]


It's the 'get an email to feed' part that confuses me.

assume the simples of pipes

        ls -la | myPerlScript

then the following would be a simple implementation of that

### #!/usr/bin/perl -w
### use strict;
###
### while(<STDIN>) {
###
###     print "I see: $_";
### }

and would generate

vladimir: 70:] ls -la | /tmp/drieux/silly.pl
I see: total 818
I see: drwxrwxrwt   6 root     sys          672 Aug  9 03:30 .
I see: drwxr-xr-x  25 root     root         512 Aug  5 13:36 ..
I see: drwxrwxrwx   2 root     root         179 Aug  4 23:16 .pcmcia
I see: drwxrwxr-x   2 root     root         176 Aug  4 23:16 .X11-pipe
I see: drwxrwxr-x   2 root     root         176 Aug  4 23:16 .X11-unix
I see: drwxr-xr-x   2 drieux   house        182 Aug  9 04:46 drieux
I see: -rw-r--r--   1 drieux   house     115341 Aug  6 07:00 
patches1028642408.html
I see: -rw-r--r--   1 drieux   house     235943 Aug  6 07:01 
patches1028642436.html
I see: -rw-rw-r--   1 root     sys         5584 Aug  4 23:15 ps_data
I see: -rwxrwxr-x   1 root     other         48 Aug  5 13:35 sunpro.c.1.0.
4.20
vladimir: 71:]

that technically works for 'getting the piped' data into
the perl code...


ciao
drieux

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