thank you all! Anjan On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Shawn H Corey <shawnhco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11-04-05 09:24 AM, ANJAN PURKAYASTHA wrote: > >> Hi, >> Is there any way to run a shell command from within a perl script and >> capture the output in, say, an array? >> One can run a shell command through the system function. But system itself >> just returns a status code. >> >> > You could use open: > > #!/usr/bin/env perl > > use strict; > use warnings; > > open my $ls_fh, '-|', 'ls' or die "could not open `ls`: $!\n"; > chomp( my @files = <$ls_fh> ); > close $ls_fh or die "could not open `ls`: $!\n"; > > print "@files\n"; > __END__ > > > -- > Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, > Shawn > > Confusion is the first step of understanding. > > Programming is as much about organization and communication > as it is about coding. > > The secret to great software: Fail early & often. > > Eliminate software piracy: use only FLOSS. > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > -- =================================== Anjan Purkayastha, PhD Senior Computational Biologist TessArae LLC 46090 Lake Center Plaza, Suite 304 Potomac Falls, VA 20165** Office- 703.444.7188 ext. 116 Mobile-703.740.6939 ===================================
