Hi there,

I'm writing a MORE type filter partly as an exercise, and partly because I'm on WinNT and am jealous of the Unix one...

I'm using the Diamond operator in the script (call it pager.pl): 
while (<>) { # do stuff }

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The filter "works" on the input if I use the file or command to filter as a parameter of the script, e.g.: pager "dir|"

But it doesn't if I try to redirect the output of a command to it, e.g.: dir |pager

In this case the script runs, but it doesn't process the output from the file or command.
Where has the output gone? (not to @ARGV, @_ or <STDIN>, as far as I can work out!)
(Sorry if this has been covered, I may have looked for the wrong thing in Supersearch)

I'm also having alternate fun and frustration with Win32::Console, but thereby hangs another post I think...

Cheerio!
Osfameron

In reply to Calling a Perl filter script from command line by osfameron

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