Re^3: Passing an in memory scalar to an external command as an argument

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I like that solution. But I need to capture stdout also (so I am actually using open2 for this). Can I write and read using IO::Pipe? The docs look like it is one or the other.

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Re^4: Passing an in memory scalar to an external command as an argument by RonW (Parson) on Apr 08, 2015 at 23:14 UTC
It is possible, but open2 is easier: `$pid = open2(\CHLD_OUT, \CHLD_IN, 'ffmpeg', '-i', 'pipe:0');` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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