Re: Getting the results of a remote script

2017-11-09 Thread SSC_perl
> On Nov 9, 2017, at 2:06 PM, David Precious wrote: > > you'll get whatever the script output to STDOUT. Thanks a million, Dave! STDOUT was what I was missing. I've never used that before, so this was news to me. The remote script now returns a string that I can manipulate and use i

Re: Getting the results of a remote script

2017-11-09 Thread David Precious
On Thu, 9 Nov 2017 12:50:05 -0800 SSC_perl wrote: > > On Nov 8, 2017, at 5:16 PM, thelip sia wrote: > > > > you can use backtick to store the output. > > $list = `ssh usern...@domain.com > > '/usr/bin/perl /path/to/dir-list.pl'`; > > Thanks, Heince. I had mistakenly thought those were

Re: Getting the results of a remote script

2017-11-09 Thread SSC_perl
> On Nov 8, 2017, at 5:16 PM, thelip sia wrote: > > you can use backtick to store the output. > $list = `ssh usern...@domain.com '/usr/bin/perl /path/to/dir-list.pl'`; Thanks, Heince. I had mistakenly thought those were synonymous with each other. And, of course, this morning, doing a

Re: Getting the results of a remote script

2017-11-09 Thread Andy Bach
$list = system('ssh usern...@domain.com '/usr/bin/perl /cgi-bin/dir-list.pl '"); Hmm, if it's a cgi-bin script, wouldn't use LWP (or curl or ...) work too? On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 6:15 PM, SSC_perl wrote: > I have a script on a remote server that creates a list of all > directories on th

Re: Getting the results of a remote script

2017-11-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thu, 9 Nov 2017 08:16:47 +0700 thelip sia wrote: > you can use backtick to store the output. > $list = `ssh usern...@domain.com '/usr/bin/perl /cgi-bin/dir-list.pl'`; > Indeed, but note that one should be careful when interpolating strings there: * http://perl-begin.org/topics/security/code