Two ways of doing this might be the shell redirect method
# @exec has the commad that i wish to run
# but we're throwing away the error meesages
open (T_RES,"@exec 2>/dev/null |")
or die "Unable to fork '@exec': $!";
while (<T_RES>) {
# parsing the output
}
and the
Perl IPC method
# @exec has the commad that i wish to run
use IPC::Open3
my $pid;
$pid = open (WTR,T_RES,ERR,"@exec")
or die "Unable to fork '@exec': $!";
while (<T_RES>) {
# parsing the output
}
waitpid $pid, 0; # if necessary, see below
Thought the shell method might be easier, the IPC::Open3 method might be more portable.
- Note:
- With the IPC::Open3 method, you might have to waitpid to reap the process.
Hope that helped,
-v
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