Execute shell script from a perl script

[kderaedt]

Hi,

How can I executed a Unix shell script from a Perl script.
The shell script is a dump of a oracle table to a file. The perl script is
for the reformat of this output file.

Thanks

Karel

[J. Gleixner]

J. Gleixner wrote:

> kderaedt wrote:
>

>> Hi,
>>
>> How can I executed a Unix shell script from a Perl script.
>> The shell script is a dump of a oracle table to a file. The perl
>> script is
>> for the reformat of this output file.

>
> perldoc -f system
>

Or if your perl script takes input from STDIN, and you modified your
shell script to echo to STDOUT, no need to call system, it'd simply be:

script.pl < script.sh > formatted.out

[Glenn Jackman]

J. Gleixner <glex_nospam@qwest.net> wrote:

> Or if your perl script takes input from STDIN, and you modified your
> shell script to echo to STDOUT, no need to call system, it'd simply be:
>
> script.pl < script.sh > formatted.out

You mean:
script.sh | script.pl > formatted.out


--
Glenn Jackman

[Andres Monroy-Hernandez]

"kderaedt" <kderaedt@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<3efafb0e$0$1064$ba620e4c@reader1.news.skynet .be>...

> Hi,
>
> How can I executed a Unix shell script from a Perl script.
> The shell script is a dump of a oracle table to a file. The perl script is
> for the reformat of this output file.
>
> Thanks
>
> Karel

Hi Karel,
you can try using a system, exec or backticks.

Here is the documentation for those:
[url]http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/func/system.html[/url]
[url]http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlop.html#[/url]

Hope that helps.

Regards,
-Andres Monroy-Hernandez