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Subject: Re: Perl on FreeBSD
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 19:23:10 -0500
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Hi,

i'm no guru but you could do this:
echo blah blah blah > blah.txt

then use perl to read the text.

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Andre` C.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Aitken" <chris@ideal.net.au>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 7:19 PM
Subject: Perl on FreeBSD


> Hi everyone....
>
>
> I have a curley on I havent been able to work out.
>
> What I want to be able to do is take the output of a FreeBSD command, and
> pipe the output to a perl script so I can use that data....
>
> For example. If I ran the following at command line,
>
> # echo "Blah Blah Blah" | perlscript.pl
>
> How would I be able to print "Blah Blah Blah" to the screen from the perl
> script. I am only new to perl and have been doing alot of funky mrtg stuff
> opening files and commands within the perl script and taking the output,
> but im stumped on how to pipe data to a perl script and use that data in
> the perl script.
>
>
> Any assistance would be great.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Chris
>
>
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