Re^3: Read System output Into a variable Name?

I'm not quite sure I understand where you're going here. The use of backticks is essentially a wrapper around open("-|"). The only difference is that you're using the OS to buffer your data as opposed to pulling it all into your process memory. If the output from the external process is large, you can easily start paging your process's memory. If you treat it as a socket (which, in essence, it is), you can bring the results in as you need, keeping only the data you want.

Unless, of course, you thought I was using system(), redirecting the results to a temp file, then open()'ing the temp file ... that's not what I was suggesting. Please read the documentation for open and look for the section dealing with -|.

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