loop in C prompt window

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Re: loop in C prompt window by Joost (Canon) on Aug 27, 2007 at 17:32 UTC
Well, you CAN do this in perl, but from your description I would think a simple shell script would be more straightforward `#!/bin/sh command1 arg1 arg2 ... command2 etc etc etc` [download] update: to clarify, that script is supposed to run on the machine your terminal connects to. That usually is far simpler than trying to control programs remotely. also: what's a C terminal? All references on the first google results page say it's some sort of amino acid. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply] [d/l]
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Re: loop in C prompt window by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 27, 2007 at 17:36 UTC
Sounds like you mean "shell" when you say "C terminal". One solution would be to pipe the output of your script to a shell: `script.pl \| sh` [download] If you want to do something interactively, you could run `sh` as a child process using IPC::Open3 or Expect (or numerous other ways).	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: loop in C prompt window by starX (Chaplain) on Aug 27, 2007 at 18:10 UTC
Mozart, out of curiosity, is this a windows or a Unix/Linux environment you're working in?	[reply]
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