On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 04:08:38PM -0500, Luc Moreault wrote:
> If I might ask, where is the $cmd variable actually executed ?
>
> I have putted it in the pingone subroutine but as I analyse the code, it
> seems like the parsing is actually done only on the $cmd variable string.
The open() function with a pipe ('|') executes the specified
command, and its output can be read from the opened filehandle.
See the perlfunc and perlipc manuals for details.
open(P, "$cmd 2>&1 |") or croak("fork: $!");
Cheers,
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Niko
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