Hi monks,

I have a question:

I am running two scripts lets assume they are named script1 and script2.

In a solaris machine i am running script1 with a few arguments and it is calling script2 with information derivered from these:

Script1:
{
   ....do stuff.
   `script2 a b c`; 
    ... do more stuff
}
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and script2 has something like that:

Script2:
{
   ....do stuff.
   print a lot of information about some tables in the 
database, update them, drop them and so on.
    ... do more stuff
}
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now if i run script2 from unix terminal it will spam screen with information related to tables on the database, print a lot of traces such as;

Working on table1:
changing A to B:
dropping table2:
table dropped:
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and so on, it keeps doing that for may be 4-5 minutes and prints a few lines on the terminal for every few seconds.

I want it to still do this when i call it from script1 but when i just use `script2 a b c`; screen looks like it is frozen, when i check DB i can see it is changing the tables but there are no traces on it.

When i call it as following from script1:

my $string = `script2 a b c`;
print "\n $string \n";
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This time screen again looks frozen and after script2's work is done (about 4-5 mins later) it suddenly prints all the info at onece, and thats bad, how can i call it so that string2 is outputting the traces on the screen but not the $string variable?

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