Call a script and return results to original script

[WaltSteadman]

I have an html page that sends some variables to a perl script "script.cgi" and I am wanting to call an expect script from within the script.cgi and get the results of the expect script returned back into the script.cgi and allow it to continue processing. I have a few scripts that redirect to other scripts using the system() call, but not sure and haven't found any documents on starting a script, calling another script and returning to the original script to continue processing. Is this doable. I know I can just implement the expect module, but have not had much success with the documents on that and since I already have a fully functional expect script figured it would be easier just to call it and have it feed its results to a file that can be further called from the original script.

Hope that wasn't too confusing. The overall script I am working on will login to multiple devices and multiple device types and return results of executed commands. I use the expect script on our load balancers beccause we hvae two versions and one does not allow non interactive login and I have gotten it working with an expect script.

Thanks in Advance.

Wally

 

[stevexff]

You can use qx to run any command and get the result back. A perl script is just another command. So

use strict;
use warnings;

my @stuff = qx{perl myscript.pl};

print @stuff;

Steve

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