This seems to work for me:
$apbs = '/bin/ls';
$output = 'output.txt';
`$apbs > $output`
Does this do what you need?
On Feb 19, 2009, at 10:11 AM, Thomas Evangelidis wrote:
Thank you David. A typical output file comprises ~200 lines. Most of
those
files are useless and thus the arrays that contain theirs lines will
occupy
extra memory. I am running many such scripts concurrently which invoke
similar processes several times so I'm wondering if there is a way
to erase
those arrays from memory upon completion of the execution.
thanks in advance,
Thomas
2009/2/19 Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- CFS <
david.wag...@fedex.com>
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Evangelidis [mailto:teva...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 08:27
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: calling a program from a perl script and redirecting
to output to a file
Dear Perl programmers,
I want to run a program from a perl script and redirect the
its output to a
file. The programs is called apbs and takes 1 argument, so in
unix shell I
'm simply typing the following:
$apbs input.in >$ output.txt # '>' doesn't work here
Unless the output is trully large, I use somehting like:
my @myout = `$apbs input.in`;
Then I parse what is in the array. I have number of processes that
I do
this way.
If you have any questions and/or problems, please let me know.
Thanks.
Wags ;)
David R. Wagner
Senior Programmer Analyst
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When using the system function I get an error. Does anyone know
how to
achieve that in perl.
thanks in advance,
Thomas
Sincerely,
James Moser
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