Thanks Jeff,
that worked like a charm. An aside, I was using "strict". But I can't use
the line:
open( SCRIPTINPUT, "|ksh_script" ) or die "could not start ksh_script";
because "SCRIPTINPUT" is a bareword. So instead I used "strict 'vars', and
it worked. But how would
I define the above line if I wanted to continue with "strict"?
Jay
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Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Gotta question
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Sam Peterson wrote:
>
> > Set $| =1 at the beginning of the program.
> >
> > It forces flushing of the output buffers.
>
> But it doesn't prevent the backticks from collecting all of the output
> from the script in RAM before passing it to the output buffers.
>
> Try this:
>
> open( SCRIPTINPUT, "|ksh_script" ) or die "could not start ksh_script";
> printf STDOUT SCRIPTINPUT;
> close SCRIPTINPUT;
>
> > At 04:42 PM 8/16/2001 -0500, Jay Strauss wrote:
> >
> > >Fancy this, I gotta new problem
> > >
> > >I'm calling a ksh script within my perl program. The ksh script
basically
> > >dumps a ton (multiple Gb) of data to stdout. I'd like my perl program
to
> > >dump it to stdout too. But if I do a:
> > >
> > >print `ksh_script`;
> > >
> > >The data doesn't get written to stdout till the ksh script completes,
as
> > >opposed to if I execute the ksh
> > >script from the cmd line like:
> > >
> > ># ksh_script > out
> > >
> > >If I call the ksh script within my perl program I figure if I have to
dump
> > >multiple Gb of data I'll run out of memory long before the ksh script
> > >completes. Is there a different way to call the ksh script from within
perl
> > >so that the output of the ksh goes straight to stdout? So that I can
do:
> > >
> > ># perl_script > out
> > >
> > >without the memory requirements
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >Jay
> > >
> > >Jay Strauss
> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
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