outputting results to a temporary file

[gammaman1]

Hi,

I just installed windows XP on my machine, and I was trying to figure out how to output the results of an execution to a file. For example:

check_execute("grep test testfile");

sub check_execute {

if (system("$_[0]") != 0)
{
print "failed execution";
print ($?>>8);
die "failed execution";
}
}

in unix, i could just use the '>' operator, but i have no idea how to do it in windows.

thanks

 

[gammaman1]

sorry, i forgot to mention that i want to output the results of "grep test testfile". I installed a windows version of grep.

thanks

 

[PaulTEG]

you won't get any output from system
use backticks ``

$result=`grep test testfile`;

make sure your path covers the path to grep, and you may need to specify your path to testfile, unless you change directories in perl before calling the backtick call

--paul

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