G'day sewood,

Welcome to the Monastery.

If you're doing this on the command line, you can just pipe STDOUT from your first program to your Perl program and, in turn, pipe its STDOUT to your second program. Something like this: 

$ os_prog_1 | perl_prog | os_prog_2

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See "perlop: I/O Operators" for full details of reading STDIN in your Perl code. Here's a highly contrived, minimal example which just reads input and passes it on unchanged (presumably, you'll want some processing to actually occur): 

$ ls -l | perl -e 'while (<>) { print }' | wc -l
    821

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And, just to confirm the Perl code was passing on each line: 

$ ls -l | wc -l
    821

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— Ken

In reply to Re: using data from an os program by kcott
in thread using data from an os program by sewood

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