On Thursday, March 21, 2002, at 05:16 PM, Ari B Kahn wrote:
> I'm running a perl CGI script that needs to execute another external
> perl
> script on the same machine. I would like to see the screen output of
> this
> external script as well. What is a good way to do this?
>
> I was trying
> system ("/Users/username/perl_dir/perl_script --flags other_arguments");
>
> It doesn't seem to work though.
Hi Ari,
I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do, since your terms "see"
and "work" are somewhat ambiguous. But I suspect you'd want something
like this:
open CMD, '/Users/username/perl_dir/perl_script --flags
other_arguments |'
or die $!;
my $output = do {local $/; <CMD>};
close CMD
or die $!;
-Ken
