Hello monks , I am a littel new to perl ,, my script is excuting a ping command to check if it can ping a server , i just need to store the result inot array or variable so I can print it in a nice format ,, I don't need the output to go to the command line .. I need to store to a variable and print it later in the script in the format I want ,, right now I am trying to redrict the output to a file 
open (PING, ">>dummy");
unless ($pid = fork) {
unless (fork) {
           print PING exec "ping $host";
           die "no exec";
                  exit 0;
                    }
                    exit 0;
                          }
                          waitpid($pid,0);
                  close(PING);

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In reply to storing result in variable by Anonymous Monk

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