exec

I would like to run a specific unix in a perl script. Would that be safier
than running it from within a php script?

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Re: exec

In article <479df71c$0$85784$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>, Floor
wrote:

> I would like to run a specific unix in a perl script. Would that be safier
> than running it from within a php script?

I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by "run a specific unix
in a perl script". Can you explain?

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Re: exec

Jim Gibson:

> I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by "run a specific unix
> in a perl script". Can you explain?

Sorry, typo; I mean that I would like to run a unix script in Perl; not a
'who' of 'pwd' command, but a script in which I do several cat's to a
document. Does a Perl source have a certain exec program part? I did the
command, but without any result...

thanks,
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Re: exec

In article <479f1f98$0$85792$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>, Floor
wrote:

> Jim Gibson:
>
> > I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by "run a specific unix
> > in a perl script". Can you explain?
>
> Sorry, typo; I mean that I would like to run a unix script in Perl; not a
> 'who' of 'pwd' command, but a script in which I do several cat's to a
> document. Does a Perl source have a certain exec program part? I did the
> command, but without any result...

How about posting a short script that demonstrates the problem you are
having?

You can certainly execute a Unix shell script from a Perl program. Use
the system function or backtics (``) or the qx() operator, depending
upon if you wish to capture the standard output of the command you are
running.

See 'perldoc -f system' for details.

I do not understand your question "Does a Perl source have a certain
exec program part?". A Perl program is compiled and interpreted by the
Perl interpreter. The executable part of a Perl program is in memory at
the time of execution.

Perl has the 'exec' function, but I don't think that is what you are
asking about.

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