Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Does anyone have any example code that invokes a shell command from within a script and then gets it's assigns its output to a Perl varible.

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Re: Spawning Shell Commands
by le (Friar) on Jun 06, 2000 at 14:32 UTC
    Use backticks: 
    @output = `command`;

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    Or use a pipe: 
    open(PIPE, "command |") or die $!;
while (<PIPE>) {
    print;
    # ..do something else
}

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