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frankigeno
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Jul 31, 2012, 11:04 AM

Post #1 of 4 (914 views)

Executing command within perl	Can't Post

Hi,

I need to execute a unix command within perl and I am using:

$result = `/root/mycommand.sh`;

The result of mycommand.sh is a lot of lines which I need to parse individually.

What would be the best way to store this result and send it to a loop to parse each line individually.

I have tried;

while (result) {
print $_;
$raw=$raw+1;
}

Which works fine but it hangs there since it doesnt recognize that It's reached the last line.

Many thanks for your help,
Francesco

Laurent_R
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Jul 31, 2012, 11:42 AM

Post #2 of 4 (912 views)

Re: [frankigeno] Executing command within perl [In reply to]	Can't Post

If you need to read the lines one by one, you should probably assign the result to an array, rather than a scalar.

Something like this:

Code

my @result = `/root/mycommand.sh`;

You can then work on each element of the array:

Code

foreach my $line (@result) { 
     chomp $line; 
     # do something on your lines 
}

frankigeno
New User

Jul 31, 2012, 11:48 AM

Post #3 of 4 (910 views)

Re: [Laurent_R] Executing command within perl [In reply to]	Can't Post

Many thanks for it,

In fact I had also found a solution on this website:
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=745018

which is very similar to yours.

I will try this and let you know,
Thanks,
Francesco

frankigeno
New User

Jul 31, 2012, 11:52 AM

Post #4 of 4 (908 views)

Re: [frankigeno] Executing command within perl [In reply to]	Can't Post

Yes,

it works.
Thank you again,
Francesco

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