in reply to redirect STDOUT from system() function

Hi!

How about using backticks: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my @List=`ls -al`;
print @List;

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Would that do it for you ?

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Re: Re: redirect STDOUT from system() function
by uzzikie (Sexton) on Aug 10, 2001 at 12:59 UTC
    hi

    nope i can't use backticks as the script is running setuid...
    says the $ENV{path} is insecur
    would be a bad idea anyway....
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      Either way, Perl spawns a system call. You'll have to untaint a couple of things in %ENV. For example, this fails: 
      #!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;

# delete $ENV{qw( BASH_ENV PATH )};

my $output = `/bin/ls`;
print "Output is ($output)\n";

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      Uncommenting the appropriate line makes it work, at least on my box. Depending on what's tainted, you may have to do a little more work.
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