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September 20, 2006

How to run a command and save the output, in Perl

Assuming we are in a directory that contains a file called 

myfile.

>perl -e "open(FOO,'cat myfile |')|| die 'cat failed'; while (){ print }"


Now I can treat FOO just like I would any other filehandle.

                              
                              

                                 Posted by Noah Sussman at 02:27 PM |