hi monks i want to pass a file name generated by a shell script to another one ... the shell script program i want to pipe my filename into ..looks like this

And why do you want to use Perl to do so? In shell (well, at least in bash - which I'm familiar with) you just use stuff like script2 $(script1). (You can also use backticks, but I just don't like them, and $() has the advantage of allowing nesting.)

while (my $var = <STDIN>) awk -f work_5messages.awk $var

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This is neither Perl nor shell, although it slightly resembles both. In Perl this could be

while (my $var = <STDIN>) {
    chomp $var;
    system 'awk', -f => 'work_5messages.awk', $var and
      die "D'Oh! (Do better error checking!!)";
}

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and in (ba)sh,

while read var; do awk -f work_5messages.awk "$var"; done

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OTOH...

syntax error near unexpected token `)' 
`while (my $var = <STDIN>) '

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This looks like a shell error. You should clarify what you're really after, to help us to help you.

In reply to Re: shell prob by blazar
in thread shell prob by vineet2004

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