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Old 11-29-2007, 08:25 PM   #1
new_2_unix
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Perl - how to capture output of a command with more than one args


hi,

i'm writing a perl script where i need to run a user defined command (a shell script) and capture the output.

i can do this as follows and it works fine:

Code:
my @list = `mycommand arg1 arg2`;
however, in the above example, i hard-coded the arg1, arg2 inside the backticks. if i want to declare a scalar variable, which basically holds the value as:

Code:
my $x = "arg1";
my $y = "arg2";

my @list = `mycommand $x $y`; //does not work 
my @list = `mycommand $x`; // works
Am I executing the line that does not work above in a wrong way? When I say 'does not work' I mean that when I iterate over my list, it doesn't have anything in it.

Any guidance will be helpful. thanks.

Last edited by new_2_unix; 11-29-2007 at 08:59 PM.
 
Old 11-29-2007, 10:19 PM   #2
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Actually looked this up a couple minutes ago for myself...

You can use the ARGV array to get your variables, and add them all either into a string, or an array. below is the method for a single string...

For example...

Code:
$args = "";
foreach (@ARGV) {
  $args = $args," ",$_;
}
`command $args`;
Where I looked this up from a bit before reading this... http://www.devdaily.com/perl/edu/qanda/plqa00001.shtml
 
Old 11-29-2007, 10:55 PM   #3
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That works!!
Thanks!
 
  


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