I ran a test and verified that this will work:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
$prg = "testers.sh";
$ret_var = <`$prg`>;
print "\n\n$ret_var\n\n";

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I got what testers.sh echoed back in $ret_val. As well, I verified that the command that testers.sh executed (`/bin/cp file1 file2`) worked too. So, the execution was not hindered, and the output of testers.sh was brought back into my Perl program for parsing. This should do it.
HTH,
Chris

In reply to Re: Grabbing tokens by cbro
in thread Grabbing tokens by kidwahoo94

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