uh... is there away around the character limit (256 chars) on
system/exec/backtick commands?
I know it's probably sh's fault, but I would like to avoid creating a shell
script if possible.
Thanx,
Nikola Janceski
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by
fearing to
From: Nikola Janceski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
uh... is there away around the character limit (256 chars) on
system/exec/backtick commands?
I know it's probably sh's fault, but I would like to avoid creating a
shell script if possible.
If you use the list variant of system() or
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nikola Janceski) writes:
uh... is there away around the character limit (256 chars) on
system/exec/backtick commands?
I know it's probably sh's fault, but I would like to avoid creating a shell
script if possible.
You can bypass the shell in
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:19:03PM +0200, Jenda Krynicky wrote:
It's a shame that even in Perl 5.8 one can't do this:
open (IN, '-|', 'cmd','/c','dir');
Well, the feature is there in 5.8.0, it's just not portable. Of course, you
mention the other way to implement that is with a pipe(),
From: Michael Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:19:03PM +0200, Jenda Krynicky wrote:
It's a shame that even in Perl 5.8 one can't do this:
open (IN, '-|', 'cmd','/c','dir');
Well, the feature is there in 5.8.0, it's just not portable. Of
course, you mention the
