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From: df@sei.cmu.edu (Dan Farmer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: catching stuff from shell commands
Keywords: system, exec, etc.
Message-ID: <9734@as0c.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 17 Dec 90 20:54:45 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University (Software Engineering Institute), Pgh, PA
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  I'm trying to run a program (via system or otherwise) and catch the stdout
and stderr.  Throwing it to a file and reading it there is easy enough, but
I'm looping through this command lots of times, and I'd like to be able to
redirect it to a variable.  Any ideas?

 Tnx --

 -- dan
    df@death.cert.sei.cmu.edu