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RE: Re: Newbie Questionby autark (Friar) |
| on Oct 25, 2000 at 14:11 UTC ( [id://38316]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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While you are quite right that the exec function in perl can be
used to execute a command, it is seldom used by itself. Usually it
is preceded by the fork function call.
To execute a program and fetch it's output, I would rather suggest either using the qx() construct or doing it by hand, open(F, "program|"). Autark.
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