Oops, I meant to change the $cmd to "$cmd\n", but I hoped you would figure that out. Remember, the bash shell needs a newline (or enter) to start executing the command. Maybe even use 2 print statements, one to print $cmd, and one to print the code for enter(a newline). Additionally you may need to set $|=1; and maybe even try using syswrite instead of print. If none of those things work, you can try to setup a pseudo-tty, which I find quite difficult. See IO::Pty.

If all fails you can always fall back to using the old standby "expect" instead of IPC::Open3.

Quite often, it is some little tiny error you are making which prevents you from getting output, even if you have it setup right, and it usually involves buffering and flushing, so the $|=1 is important. If buffering is the problem, you might see the output as you quit the program.

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

In reply to Re^7: Executing command from perl script with input/output by zentara
in thread Executing command from perl script with input/output by linuxfan

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