in reply to Shell output in perl CGI

#!/usr/bin/perl

$wget = `/usr/local/bin/wget http://www.domain.com`;

print $wget;

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Re^2: Shell output in perl CGI
by blueberryCoffee (Scribe) on Feb 04, 2005 at 06:18 UTC
    If this actually captured the output of wget it would only diplay after wget had finished running. If my understanding of the backtick operator is correct.

    But maybe if buffering is turned off...?
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