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i'm trying to execute a command on the console from a perl prog and capture the output.


I've used perl before on snmp, but that was more of a get stuff working as i go along project. I'm not sure what type <STATUS> is, and I want to get that to a file or unterstand how to use that variable. i've been mucking aaround for a while and it's 5:30 am, so forgive any blatant mistakes

tee hee hee... man I love perl! So cryptic and confusing.

<STATUS> is a file handle

open(STATUS, "$cmd |")... - this opens whatever is in the quotes and gives it a handle of STATUS (normally you open a file but perl lets you open really anything that can be treated as a file)
while (<STATUS>) - that's basically saying while this "file" is open do something
@cmdoutput = <STATUS> - this says dump everything from the "file" into an array where each line of the "file" is a seperate row of the array.

Oh yea and you have a bug in the code...
Putting that "print <STATUS>;" in there causes the contents of the "file" to be read in and printed to the screen. Which then means when you hit the next line "@cmdoutput = <STATUS>;" the contents of the "file" is now empty and the array gets filled with a null.

the code works fine otherwise and will dump the contents of a programs output into the file x.txt... just remove the print <status> and put a print @cmdouput after the @cmdoutput = <status> line.

Thanks dexter
Beautiful almost done ver1

making a remote console to my pc through aim. yeah, perl rocks

coolies... sounds like a fun little project!