Re: help in opening file with pipe

Hi,
you would only use the pipe if there was some command that produces some output that you want to catch (e.g. open(CMD, 'ls -l |')). If you only want to open a file for reading, you shouldn't use the pipe operator. See open for details.
Regards,
svenXY

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Re^2: help in opening file with pipe by uva (Sexton) on Feb 09, 2006 at 11:08 UTC
it means we get the output from the command and we use that output as a filename.right	[reply]
Re^3: help in opening file with pipe by blazar (Canon) on Feb 10, 2006 at 09:05 UTC
(Incidentally: `s/$/?/`) No, it's not right. It means that a process is forked for that command and that the output of that command, i.e. what that it will inject into `STDOUT` is returned to you when you read from the opened filehandle, as if it were the content of an actual file.	[reply] [d/l] [select]