Capture external command output line by line on Windows 98, shell problem.

[Dib Urim]

Hello,

I'm trying to Capture external command output and error line by line.
There is no problem to implement it on windows 2000, but in Windows 98
you need a special shell.
The only shell that I found and it really work with is: stderr.exe*

This code is work fine on w98:

open(PROC,"stderr.exe $some_command |");
while(<PROC>) {
print ("$_");
}
close(PROC);

But the point is that it fail when I'm specify full path for "stderr.exe"
(becuase I'm exe file using perlapp and --bind don't help)

For example:

open(PROC,"C:/dir_name/stderr.exe $some_command |");
while(<PROC>) {
print ("$_");
}
close(PROC);

My questions are:
1) Why can't I specify full path ?
2) Do you know any alternative shell that work on Windows 98 using pipe.

Regards

 

[Ben Liddicott]

Hi Dib,

You need to put the full path in quotes, if it contains any spaces, which it often will on Win32.

open(PROC,qq[stderr.exe "$some_command" |]);

Cheers,
Ben Liddicott

 

[Michele Dondi]

<OT>

print ("$_");

print ($_);
print $_;
print;

</OT>


Michele

 

[Tad McClellan]

<OT> ^^^^
^^^^

print ($_);
print $_;
print;

</OT>

^^^^^
^^^^^


That sure looks like Perl to me...

 

[Michele Dondi]

That sure looks like Perl to me...

OT wrt the subject line!


Michele