Execute shell script from a perl script

[kderaedt]

Hi,

How can I executed a Unix shell script from a Perl script.
The shell script is a dump of a oracle table to a file. The perl script is
for the reformat of this output file.

Thanks

Karel

 

[J. Gleixner]

perldoc -f system

Or if your perl script takes input from STDIN, and you modified your
shell script to echo to STDOUT, no need to call system, it'd simply be:

script.pl < script.sh > formatted.out

 

[Glenn Jackman]

Or if your perl script takes input from STDIN, and you modified your
shell script to echo to STDOUT, no need to call system, it'd simply be:

script.pl < script.sh > formatted.out

You mean:
script.sh | script.pl > formatted.out

 

[Andres Monroy-Hernandez]

Hi,

How can I executed a Unix shell script from a Perl script.
The shell script is a dump of a oracle table to a file. The perl script is
for the reformat of this output file.

Thanks

Karel

Hi Karel,
you can try using a system, exec or backticks.

Here is the documentation for those:
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/func/system.html
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlop.html#

Hope that helps.

Regards,
-Andres Monroy-Hernandez