Ya that is right but I want to avoid the whole file thing. I have to do this
very often in some testing scripts and it slows down the whole test a great
deal. So I am looking for an alternative to it.
Thanks
Mayank
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Hi
Thanks, but I need to preserve the value returned by $mycommand also. I
guess using backticks won't allow me to do that .
Mostly what I need to do is read from STDOUT into a variable. But I don't
know how to do that.
Mayank
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From: Brett W. McCoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT
Hi,
Thanks
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From: Brett W. McCoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 11:56 AM
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Subject: Re: Redirecting STDOUT to a variable...
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am looking to run a co
Hi,
I am looking to run a command using perl and get its return value as well as
its STDOUT. Currently I am doing is
$result = system("$myCommand >out.txt");
open(FILE,"< out.txt");
and then processing the data from the file. This is terribly slow for my
application. Is there some way where I c
