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(Some of the following notes surely apply to bash, don't know about other shells).

You can use the backtick operator or its equivalent (and prefearable, IMHO):

return1=`/path/to/script.pl arg1 arg2` return2=$(/path/to/script.pl arg1 arg2)
The latter has the added advantage of allowing nested subshell invocations.

If your return value can have newlines, I'd suggest to use double quotes:

return_newlines="$(/path/to/script.pl arg1 arg2)"
And yes, you can use read as well, but you have to be extremely careful about what you want to do. Suppose you have the following script:
#!/usr/bin/perl print $_, $/ for @ARGV;
and you want to set the variable value to the contents of the last line:
#!/bin/bash value=0 echo "value starts from $value" ./script.pl arg1 arg2 | while read line ; do value=$line echo "value is $value" done echo "after first while, value is $value" while read line ; do value=$line echo "value is $value" done <<<"$(./script.pl arg1 arg2)" echo "finally, value is $value"
you obtain:
value starts from 0 value is arg1 value is arg2 after first while, value is 0 value is arg1 value is arg2 finally, value is arg2
Note that after the first while the variable value has not been modified. This is due to the fact that the first while cycle is being executed inside a subshell.

OTOH, the second while is executed directly by the "current" shell. This may lead to problems if you pass a lot of data back, anyway.

Note that there are also other ways, but there is too little space on the side of this post to write them.

Flavio
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Don't fool yourself.

In reply to Re^3: values from perl to sh script by polettix
in thread values from perl to sh script by wpeterma

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