I am interested in created a loop that will constantly call an external application (let's just say nmap) to perform work that I don't care to code, but rather than running the application by firing off the application from a shell, I would rather load nmap into a variable name and run it from within the perl script everytime, so it faster than calling the external app. Mostly, I am interested in running bench marks to see what kind of improvement I get from doing something like this, if it is possible.

Any help in this area would be greatly appreciated. Nmap is just a sample, but it gets across my point. After loading the application into the variable, I would like to use options, etc, but I am not sure if this is possible and have never tried such a thing.

Thanks in advance for any help in this area.

-R1n0

In reply to Load external application to variable by r1n0

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