Re^4: Integrating shell cmd to perl script

Just tried this. I created a separate shell script for snmp polling and called this shell script in the actual perl script as you suggested.

 
my $pid= open( my $fh, '<path>/snmp.pl |' );
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But, after executing this am not getting the control back to the perl script. Should i use "&" after snmp.pl?

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Re^5: Integrating shell cmd to perl script by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 25, 2015 at 09:39 UTC
This is weird because I launch scripts that way in the background if I plan to read their output from them. Maybe you should check whether the `open()` call is successful or maybe you can post a short program (10 lines or so) that demonstrates the problem.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Integrating shell cmd to perl script by anonymized user 468275 (Curate) on Mar 25, 2015 at 18:49 UTC
It looks like you need something like fork, e.g.: `my $pid = fork; if ($pid) { # do all the other tasks here system "kill $pid"; # ready to stop the polling } else { # do the polling }` [download] One world, one people	[reply] [d/l]