Perl equivient

[fod]

I was wondering if any one new the perl equivient to the php passthru command.
It exucutes a system command, and then displays the output. But that bits not so inportant.

Thanks

[Ben Briggs]

I apologize because I'm not familiar with PHP, but from your discription... did you try the 'system()' and/or 'exec()' functions?

[Sweede]

For anyone who doesnt know php's passthru function. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.passthru.php


passthru
(PHP 3, PHP 4 )

passthru -- Execute an external program and display raw output
Description

void passthru (string command [, int return_var])


The passthru() function is similar to the Exec() function in that it executes a command. If the return_var argument is present, the return status of the Unix command will be placed here. This function should be used in place of Exec() or System() when the output from the Unix command is binary data which needs to be passed directly back to the browser. A common use for this is to execute something like the pbmplus utilities that can output an image stream directly. By setting the content-type to image/gif and then calling a pbmplus program to output a gif, you can create PHP scripts that output images directly.

Note that if you start a program using this function and want to leave it running in the background, you have to make sure that the output of that program is redirected to a file or some other output stream or else PHP will hang until the execution of the program ends.

See also exec(), system(), popen(), EscapeShellCmd(), and the backtick operator.



Thats what the passthru function does.

[jemfinch]

If you're writing it in a CGI script, just use system().

Jeremy

[YaRness]

"perldoc -f system"

i think you can retrieve the output by doing @list = system(stuff). at least that's how it works with backticks