in reply to Re: command interpreter
in thread command interpreter

This is how you might do it. At least it's a start. When you read the results from your commands, do whatever you want depending on the returned text. I think what you really need to do here, is substitute /bin/bash with your script, 'myprocessor.pl'. Then, have myprocessor.pl accept commands on stdin, run appropriate subs, and return answers.
#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use IPC::Open3; use IO::Select; my $pid = open3(\*WRITE, \*READ,\*ERROR,"/bin/bash"); my $sel = new IO::Select(); $sel->add(\*READ); $sel->add(\*ERROR); my($error,$answer)=('',''); while(1){ print "Enter command\n"; chomp(my $query = <STDIN>); #send query to bash print WRITE "$query\n"; foreach my $h ($sel->can_read) { my $buf = ''; if ($h eq \*ERROR) { sysread(ERROR,$buf,4096); if($buf){print "ERROR-> $buf\n"} } else { sysread(READ,$buf,4096); if($buf){print "$query = $buf\n"} } } } waitpid($pid, 1); # It is important to waitpid on your child process, # otherwise zombies could be created.

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