[tpm] Writing to STDOUT in batches

[Antonio Sun]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Antonio Sun <antoniosun at lavabit.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have the following code in a loop:
>
>     open(OUTFILE, "$cmd >> myfile"); # append write
>     print OUTFILE content();
>     close(OUTFILE);
>
> The $cmd is a complicated sed command. For simplicity purpose, let's say
> it is
>
>   | sed -n '10,20p'
>
> I.e., printing only lines 10~20 of the content of each loop.
>
> My goal is to write to STDOUT instead of a fixed file. I tried to change
> the above open statement with
>
>     open(OUTFILE, "$cmd >-");   # write to STDOUT
>
> or,
>
>     open(OUTFILE, "$cmd >>-");   # write to STDOUT
>
> but didn't get any output.
>

Thank you Richard to have solved my problem. -- I was too carried away with
redirections. As you've pointed out, this alone work just as expected:

     open(OUTFILE, "$cmd");   # write to STDOUT

Thanks
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