I have a perl script that I copied from somewhere: 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

@machines = qw(
    host1.foo.com
    host2.foo.com
    host3.foo.com
);
$HTML = "<html>\n";
$HTML .= " <body>\n";
$HTML .= " 
\n";
foreach $machine (@machines) {
    $response = `ping $machine`;
    $HTML .= "$machine: $response";
}
$HTML .= " 
\n";
$HTML .= " </body>\n";
$HTML .= "</html>\n";
open(HTMLFILE, ">pingresults.html") || die "Couldn't open pingresults\n";
print HTMLFILE "$HTML\n";
close (HTMLFILE);

How can I get the output to print to STDOUT rather than an HTML file?

I know this seems kind of pointless, but I eventually want to be able to pipe the output to an external program for monitoring purposes.

I'm new to perl (did you guess?), so thanks in advance for your patience.

rgds,
protos

In reply to How do I print output to STDOUT instead of to an HTML file? by Anonymous Monk

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