Hi, this may help you. The example shows how to run the 'bc' calculator program, and collect its output with IO::Select.
#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use IPC::Open3; use IO::Select; my $pid = open3(\*WRITE, \*READ,\*ERROR,"bc"); my $sel = new IO::Select(); $sel->add(\*READ); $sel->add(\*ERROR); my($error,$answer)=('',''); while(1){ print "Enter command\n"; chomp(my $query = <STDIN>); #send query to bash print WRITE "$query\n"; foreach my $h ($sel->can_read) { my $buf = ''; if ($h eq \*ERROR) { sysread(ERROR,$buf,4096); if($buf){print "ERROR-> $buf\n"} } else { sysread(READ,$buf,4096); if($buf){print "$query = $buf\n"} } } } waitpid($pid, 1); # It is important to waitpid on your child process, # otherwise zombies could be created.
and here is a simple way to start a bash script session, print commands to it, and collect output.
#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use IPC::Open3; $|=1; my $pid=open3(\*IN,\*OUT, \*ERR , '/bin/bash'); # set \*ERR to 0 to send STDERR to STDOUT my $cmd = 'date'; #send cmd to bash print IN "$cmd\n"; my $result = <OUT>; print $result;

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In reply to Re: Run an interactive shell command from Perl script by zentara
in thread Run an interactive shell command from Perl script by nofear_asa

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