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Hi Haukex,

Thank you so much for the clarification. I'm the same guy you helped with your fantastic answer earlier. I have used your module and slightly modified version of your code in this script. Thank you once again.

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Re^3: Perl script runs fine if exec'd from the directory, but gives error if run outside the directory.
by haukex (Archbishop) on Oct 02, 2020 at 22:06 UTC
    I have used your module

    Glad to help. Note IPC::Run3 isn't my module (IPC::Run3::Shell, which uses that module, is). By the way, in the comments in the OP you mention DRY, and this is definitely a case where it applies. Here's how I might have coded this in order to avoid as much of the repetition as possible:

    my @commands = ( { name=>'genhealth', arg=>'/sys/general', file=>'genhealthfile' }, { name=>'bat', arg=>'/env/bat', file=>'batteries' }, # ... { name=>'ssd', arg=>'/env/ssd', file=>'ssd_file' }, ); for my $cmd (@commands) { print "### Working on ", $cmd->{name}, "\n"; run3 ['uemcli', '-d', $vnxe_ip, '-u', $username, '-p', $password, $cmd->{arg}, 'show', '-detail'], undef, \my $out; my $str = decode('UTF-16', $out, Encode::FB_CROAK); my $filename = $cmd->{file}.'.txt'; open (my $fh, '>', $filename) or die "$filename: $!"; print $fh $str; close $fh; }

    Update: By the way, I don't know why you are using file mode '+>', since that's only needed for R/W access, it seems to me '>' should be enough for your case. Beware of cargo-culting!

      Hi Haukex,

      How you guys are able to write this elegant and mind opening stuff on the fly is beyond me. Hope one day I will reach there. Thank you once again for this. You are all generous and quite helpful.