Re: perl child to return var to a bash parent

Read perlipc, basically, the only way parent/child process can communicate is through stdin/sdtout/stderr, so your bash program would read whatever your perl program prints to stdout, and do something with it

Since you already have perl, forget about writing bash, just write perl :)

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Re^2: perl child to return var to a bash parent by ddub7 (Initiate) on May 02, 2011 at 11:29 UTC
Thanks for your reply :) Yes next time i'll go with perl but i spent so many days on the bash prog that it's too late for this one :( I was trying to avoid writing to a temp file, but finally it seems to be the less worst solution...	[reply]
Re^3: perl child to return var to a bash parent by choroba (Cardinal) on May 02, 2011 at 13:21 UTC
I was trying to avoid writing to a temp file, but finally it seems to be the less worst solution... Why? Just call from your bash script: `eval result=([1]=$(perl -e 'print join " ",map rand 10,1..50'))` [download] and then use the results: `echo ${result[1]},${result[50]}` [download] No temp files needed.	[reply] [d/l] [select]