ANJAN PURKAYASTHA wrote: > A filehandle to run a program ?!! And what is that pipe symbol doing there? > Would appreciate any pointers to how this works or where I can read up > about this.
Yes Perl can use pipes in open. See: perldoc -f open http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/open.html perldoc perlopentut http://perldoc.perl.org/perlopentut.html perldoc -f pipe http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/pipe.html perldoc perlipc http://perldoc.perl.org/perlipc.html perldoc IPC::Open2 http://perldoc.perl.org/IPC/Open2.html perldoc IPC::Open3 http://perldoc.perl.org/IPC/Open3.html -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is as much about organization and communication as it is about coding. I like Perl; it's the only language where you can bless your thingy. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
