Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 11:53:55 +1100 From: Gavin Cameron <gavin@mercury.itworks.com.au> To: Chris Aitken <chris@ideal.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011113005355.GA36434@mercury.itworks.com.au> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011113111839.03949520@mail.ideal.net.au> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20011113111839.03949520@mail.ideal.net.au>
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
while (<>)
{
print;
}
Transfers standard input to standard output. Replace print inside the while
loop to do whatever you want. The line read in is stored in $_ in this
example.
Gavin
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 11:19:47AM +1100, Chris Aitken wrote:
> Hi everyone....
>
>
> I have a curley on I havent been able to work out.
>
> What I want to be able to do is take the output of a FreeBSD command, and
> pipe the output to a perl script so I can use that data....
>
> For example. If I ran the following at command line,
>
> # echo "Blah Blah Blah" | perlscript.pl
>
> How would I be able to print "Blah Blah Blah" to the screen from the perl
> script. I am only new to perl and have been doing alot of funky mrtg stuff
> opening files and commands within the perl script and taking the output,
> but im stumped on how to pipe data to a perl script and use that data in
> the perl script.
>
>
> Any assistance would be great.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Chris
>
>
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