Hi, Weird situation. I'm using a BMC monitoring program that allows me to call an external program and pipe it's output as a variable back into the BMC app. The problem is that it won't run a perl script. It only recognizes .bat files (as far as I can tell). So my question is: How can I run a .bat file that calls a perl script that outputs backs to the .bat file that outputs to the BMC app? Here's what I've got so far: 
@echo off
call "D:\Program Files\Perl\bin\perl.exe" bayes.pl testArgs

#bayes.pl will return the output on the screen

#I need to pipe that output back into the .bat file and then I've got 
+it from there

echo BAYESOUTPUT; >> %1

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So how do I get what the perl script outputs back into .bat file as an argument/variable? Thanks

In reply to Pipe perl to .bat by theneil

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