Thanks Tim,
Though this was not the solution to my problem, I beleive that it
helped me
find that solution. I needed to specify the full path of the command I was
trying. Since I was not specifying the full path I was getting an error
message. After adding that code snippet I was informed of this :)
Thanks for the help.
--Alex
Quoting Tim Wilde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Alex Brelsfoard wrote:
>
>> OK, so I know there's an easy-ish way to handle this situation. But I'm
>> currently running in circles, not finding the solution. Basically what I'm
>> trying to do is run a system command (with either `command` or
>> system("commnad") ) and retrieve the printed result form the command into a
>> variable of some sort.
>> So think of it this way:
>> my $info = `ls`;
>
> And this doesn't work? Is your command outputting on STDOUT or STDERR?
> If it's dumping its output on STDERR, try adding "2>&1" to the end of your
> command in back-ticks, that will redirect STDERR to STDOUT, and might get
> the output captured properly (though I haven't tried it).
>
> Tim Wilde
>
> -- Tim Wilde
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Systems Administrator
> Dynamic Network Services, Inc.
> http://www.dyndns.com/
>
_______________________________________________
Boston-pm mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
