Hello,

I am making one shell script, that at one point calls a perl script. I am able to get it to execute the perl script, however, I am wondering if there is any way to send commands after execution (by running the script in the background?) For example, the perl script takes in text entered by a user in multiple categories, allowing the user to proceed to the next category using ctrl+d, then upon completion generates email from the input data, I'd like to execute the perl script from my csh script and send it input data for each category. Would this be possible? Any help or suggestions of other ways to accomplish this I might not of thought of would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

I am not sure I follow? If you are running the perl script inside your csh script, are you saying it is not asking you to enter the data mentioned?

Hello,

Sorry not the easiest thing to explain. The perl script executes normally from the c shell script, and it's prompting me to enter the input data manually. However, I am trying to get it so that I can send it the input data directly from my csh script instead of the the user having to input the data manually. Is that possible?

Thanks again!

By your description, it sounds like the Perl script needs to see an EOF to terminate it's read()s. That makes it tricky, because your C-Shell script would have to iteratively redirect some of it's content, probably using a 'here'document' concept. I cannot envision any way to accomplish that. It would be better to use some delimiter other than EOF, such as a blank line, or a line with only a '.' (period), which are both somewhat conventional. Perhaps post a fragment of the Perl code that shows how your iterative read()s are being done.

--- rod.