I am reluctant to post this question here as I am relatively new to perl ... I have scoured the interwebs looking for a straight forward solution to this problem.

it's simple in theory ... call a perl script from within a perl script passing it stdin (not an arg)

script #1 calls script #2 --> script #2 require certain input to continue, a simple yes <enter> ... however I need to capture the stdout of script #2 before and after feeding it the yes <enter>

I have messed with IPC::Open2 but I do not think that is the correct solution to my problem.

one restriction: the environment this situation occurs in is restricted to only base/included modules, nothing from CPAN :(

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

regards,
pogbobo

In reply to running script within a script (semi-interactive) by pogbobo

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