Re: Modules to handle backticks?


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Re: Modules to handle backticks?

by Kanji (Parson)

on Nov 24, 2002 at 03:15 UTC ( [id://215468]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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in reply to Modules to handle backticks?

You might want to take at a few of the IPC:: modules like IPC::Open3 (alt.) and IPC::Run (alt.), but an alternative on platforms that support descriptor redirection is something like ...

# adapted from the Perl Cookbook, 16.9

@all = `( cmd | perl -pe "s/^/stdout: /" ) 2>&1`;

for (@all) { 
  push @{ s/stdout: // ? \@out : \@err }, $_
}
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--k.