On 05/04/2011 14:24, ANJAN PURKAYASTHA wrote:
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 should read the section on qx/STRING/ in perldoc perlop. Backticks `` are the same as qx//, but I prefer the latter as it is more visible, and backticks are liable to be confused with single quotes ''. If you use qx// in scalar context it will return everything the command sends to stdout in a single string. If you put it in list context it will return a list of lines, each terminated by the current records separator - probably "\n". HTH, Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
