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in reply to write to cmd and save output

Update:Doh.. I missed the interactively part..

If you mean run an executable and capture the output, there are several ways to do this.

$result = `mycmd.exe -param1 -param2`;

or you could look at win32::process but you would have to do some clever STDOUT redirection. Some links to follow..

  • Win32 Process Output
  • Re: Capturing error messages from Win32::Process
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    Re: Re: write to cmd and save output
    by aquarium (Curate) on Nov 19, 2003 at 13:24 UTC
      expect module is what you want
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        except that it's not (it doesn't work on win32)
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          you better tell activestate that it doesn't work. according to them it does. the module's doc url is http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/CodeDoc/Expect/Expect.html
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