deal with system output

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

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Re: deal with system output by MZSanford (Curate) on Nov 29, 2001 at 21:35 UTC
Sounds like a job for the mighty Backticks : my @output = `ping x.x.x.x`; ### do cool stuff with @output [download] Or, better, use Net::Ping i had a memory leak once, and it ruined my favorite shirt.	[reply] [d/l]
(shockme) Re: deal with system output by shockme (Chaplain) on Nov 29, 2001 at 21:43 UTC
You can get the same effect of the backtick with qx: `my @output = qx(ping x.x.x.x);` [download] If things get any worse, I'll have to ask you to stop helping me.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: deal with system output by hotshot (Prior) on Nov 29, 2001 at 21:55 UTC
just wanted to add that the system command you used, returens exit code and not the output as you wanted, so using what the brothers suggusted (backtics or qx) is what you wanted. Hotshot	[reply]
Re: deal with system output by mortis (Pilgrim) on Nov 30, 2001 at 01:45 UTC
In addition to using the aforementioned backtick solutions, you may also want to look into IPC::Open2 and IPC::Open3, as they are much easier to use when the taint flag is on. It's usualy much easier (and safer) to just do: `my $pid = open2($reader,$writer,'ping',@args);` [download] Instead of trying to un-taint the arguments to backticks. Kyle	[reply] [d/l]