I finally understand what’s happening, thanks for the link to
http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/Buffering.html. Perl’s system command
starts a program’s whose stdout becomes my terminal (and that’s why it
works), other ways of forking commands (backticks, open, open2) set
stdout to a file that is not a t
On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 20:08 -0700, Jake wrote:
> test.pl cant be modified, im looking for something that will work with
> any program, my own or not.
>
If test.pl reads and writes thru STDIN and STDOUT, you may be able to
use a bi-directional pipe.
See:
perldoc IPC::Open2
perldoc IPC::Open3
perl
test.pl cant be modified, im looking for something that will work with
any program, my own or not.
On Sep 9, 10:11 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raymond Wan) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Seems like what you need is to do an "autoflush". Try searching for it
> with Google...this might be a good start and enough for
On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 14:04 -0700, doubleHelix wrote:
> I am having a problem in capturing the output and exit value from a
> system command that prompts the user for input. The following shows a
> simplification of the problem. Im trying to get it so that all the
> text before the prompt gets outp
Hi,
Seems like what you need is to do an "autoflush". Try searching for it
with Google...this might be a good start and enough for what you want:
http://bytes.com/forum/thread603712.html
Note that stdout tends to be buffered and stderr not (since it's for
error messages and they should app
