Though I am sure that the better approach is to change the first script, here is a (very) simple solution to feed the
two filenames to the script.
I assume your first script looks something like this:
use strict;
my ($filename_in, $filename_out);
while ($filename_in eq "") {
print "IN file: ";
$filename_in = <>;
chomp $filename_in;
}
while ($filename_out eq "") {
print "OUT file: ";
$filename_out = <>;
chomp $filename_out;
}
print "IN: [$filename_in]\n";
print "OUT: [$filename_out]\n";
Then you could use this script to execute the first script and feed the two filenames to it:
use strict;
my $command = "./script1.pl";
my ($filename_in, $filename_out) = qw(infile outfile);
system ("echo \"$filename_in\n$filename_out\n\" | $command");
Assuming, of course, you are on a Un*x machine, echo is in your path,the first script is called "script1.pl", etc.
------ kurt
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