System calls

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Re: System calls by Django (Pilgrim) on Jun 08, 2004 at 10:10 UTC
Check out vrooms tut: Working with other processes and programs -- Django "Why don't we ever challenge the spherical earth theory?"	[reply]
Re: System calls by rinceWind (Monsignor) on Jun 08, 2004 at 10:10 UTC
perldoc -f system or the 'backtick' operator is the simplest. Returns a string containing the output. If you want to send something to the command's input stream or read from its output stream a line at a time, use the piped open: `open FIL,'cmd arg arg\|' or die "Failed to fork, $!";` [download] If you need to do both reading and writing, use open3, or for a more friendly API, you might like to try IPC::Open3 -- I'm Not Just Another Perl Hacker	[reply] [d/l]
Re: System calls by BUU (Prior) on Jun 08, 2004 at 10:04 UTC
RTFM. Perldoc perlfunc.	[reply]
Re: System calls by tbone1 (Monsignor) on Jun 08, 2004 at 12:36 UTC
How to invoke a DOS command "With great misgivings", I'd say. </unixsnob> -- tbone1, YAPS (Yet Another Perl Schlub) And remember, if he succeeds, so what. - Chick McGee	[reply]