How do you get the output of a system command into a variable without
piping to a temporary text file that I would later have to open and process?
Ex on win32:
system("dir c:\\ >dir.txt"); #pipe the directory listing to dir.txt
$var = system("dir c:\\ >dir.txt"); #only returns numerical codes for $var
not necessarily the true output
system("dir c:\\ >$var"); #Basically the idea I am looking for but this
doesn't work as the syntax of the system command is incorrect.
I'm curious about the process. I don't need it for the 'dir' command
specifically but any system command that returns some output.
Thanks alot!
-Mike
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Mike Garner
Western State College
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