[Chicago-talk] Capturing OS command output.
Steven Lembark
lembark at wrkhors.com
Tue Jul 5 21:04:00 PDT 2005
-- Richard Reina <richard at rushlogistics.com>
>
> Does anyone know how can I get the scalar to give me
> the path of the convert command?
>
> my $convert_path = system("which convert");
use Fatal qw( open );
my @result =
eval
{
open my $fh, "$command |";
<$fh>
};
die if $@;
or
my @result = qx( $command );
>
> just gives me the success or fail results.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
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