[PLUG] perl question

[peter]

thanks! figured it would be something that simple.. :)

peter

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, James C. Lewis wrote:

> 
> 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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