System Command Results

[Gary]

I can see how to check success or failure of a system command but how can I
see what was actually returned by the command to be able to do further
processing.

I know I could write the answer to a file and read the file but it seems
pretty crude.

G

 

[Richard Morse]

I can see how to check success or failure of a system command but how can I
see what was actually returned by the command to be able to do further
processing.

I know I could write the answer to a file and read the file but it seems
pretty crude.

G

look at the 'qx' fuction (or, if you prefer, backticks (``)).

HTH>
Ricky

 

[Tad McClellan]

I can see how to check success or failure of a system command but how can I
see what was actually returned by the command to be able to do further
processing.

print 'system returned: ', system('some command'), "\n";

I know I could write the answer to a file and read the file but it seems
pretty crude.

Huh?

Oh, you do NOT want what was returned from system().

You appear to want the OUTPUT generated from system().

The docs for system() tell how to do that.

perldoc -f system

... This is not what you want to use to capture the output from
a command, for that you should use merely ...


Please don't ask thousands of people to read the docs for you!

 

[Jürgen Exner]

I can see how to check success or failure of a system command but how
can I see what was actually returned by the command to be able to do
further processing.

I know I could write the answer to a file and read the file but it
seems pretty crude.

Which part of the third paragraph of the man page for system() do you not
understand?

perldoc -f system:

[...] This is
*not* what you want to use to capture the output from a command,
for that you should use merely backticks or "qx//", as described
in the section on "`STRING`" in the perlop manpage. [...]

jue