[PLUG] perl question

[James C. Lewis]

That's exactly what `telnet` would do.  Using the backticks causes perl to
capture everything sent to STDOUT.  That's useful for something like:

@lines = `tail -f /var/log/messages`

You need to use system("telnet") instead.

-James

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, peter wrote:

> i'm fiddling with perl, and i have a question that i can't seem to find an
> answer to.. i have a perl script that i want to run telnet or ssh from
> (depending on user input), but when i finally get to the point where i run
> it (with `telnet $ARGV[0]` etc..) it run's, but doesn't show the output..
> that is, it seems to be eating all the output.. so how do i get perl to
> call a unix command in the middle of the script, have the program act
> normally, and then continue after the unix command exits?
> 
> thanks,
> peter
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