We have a machine at work that runs diagnostic in a command tool. This machine is on Solaris 5.8 and uses Perl 5.8.8

What I am wondering is if I could use Perl to watch the STDOUT of the command tool that runs the diagnostics so that I could save/parse certain data automatically? I only want to passively listen. I realize this would constitute some security issues as a general behavior, so I am expecting you to say that terminal sessions have limited access. But I thought I would ask.

I have to be able to watch the terminal from another terminal session, because the program is started by using a shortcut. I can't run the perl script before hand in the same session nor execute it from Perl. The diagnostic program has to be executed from the shortcut.

In reply to Can Perl read another terminals STDOUT? by westrock2000

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