From: Michael Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:19:03PM +0200, Jenda Krynicky wrote:
> > It's a shame that even in Perl 5.8 one can't do this:
> > open (IN, '-|', 'cmd','/c','dir');
>
> Well, the feature is there in 5.8.0, it's just not portable. Of
> course, you mentio
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:19:03PM +0200, Jenda Krynicky wrote:
> It's a shame that even in Perl 5.8 one can't do this:
> open (IN, '-|', 'cmd','/c','dir');
Well, the feature is there in 5.8.0, it's just not portable. Of course, you
mention the other way to implement that is with a pipe(),
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nikola Janceski) writes:
>uh... is there away around the character limit (256 chars) on
>system/exec/backtick commands?
>I know it's probably sh's fault, but I would like to avoid creating a shell
>script if possible.
You can bypass the shell in
From: Nikola Janceski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> uh... is there away around the character limit (256 chars) on
> system/exec/backtick commands?
> I know it's probably sh's fault, but I would like to avoid creating a
> shell script if possible.
If you use the list variant of system()
uh... is there away around the character limit (256 chars) on
system/exec/backtick commands?
I know it's probably sh's fault, but I would like to avoid creating a shell
script if possible.
Thanx,
Nikola Janceski
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