Re^2: System call

this is the sturcture of my perl scrip : -frist part of my perl script -system call to matlab (this needs to produce file A which doesnt exist so far) -second part of my perl script (this opens file A) do you just want me to change the system call to my $junk = `system call here`;? will this store file A in the same directory as my perl script? and will the second part of my perl script run only after the system call is done and it has produces file A? Thank you again

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Re^3: System call by hsinclai (Deacon) on Feb 04, 2005 at 01:55 UTC
Generally that's the idea - the output of `system call here` ends up in `$junk` .. But if `system call here` is a process - like a Matlab command - that creates an output file on its own, unless it writes the same output to STDOUT, you will likely not get it back in `$junk`. You definitely have to experiment, and note that the system command acts differently in that regard to the backticks or qx//. You can see the difference by running these two commands... `perl -e 'use strict; my @n = qx!/bin/netstat -a\|grep LISTEN\|grep -v un +ix; sleep 4!; print $_ . $/ for @n;'` [download] and `perl -e 'use strict; my @n = system("/bin/netstat -a\|grep LISTEN\|grep + -v unix; sleep 4"); print $_ . $/ for @n;'` [download] update - Unless of course, you are on Windows, then netstat and sleep probably won't work.. Notice when using system(), @n gets printed right away, and with qx// the script waits until the external commands are done.. If you do $junk = `system call here`;.. $junk will probably contain the Matlab command's exit code.. and you can then go open the new file A.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: System call
by hsinclai (Deacon) on Feb 04, 2005 at 01:55 UTC

`system call here`

$junk

`system call here`

$junk

perl -e 'use strict; my @n = qx!/bin/netstat -a|grep LISTEN|grep -v un
+ix; sleep 4!; print $_ . $/ for @n;'
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 perl -e 'use strict; my @n = system("/bin/netstat -a|grep LISTEN|grep
+ -v unix; sleep 4"); print $_ . $/ for @n;'
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$junk = `system call here`;

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