Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 21:22:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Don Read <dread@texas.net> To: Chris Aitken <chris@ideal.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Perl Script Suggestions Message-ID: <XFMail.010614212222.dread@texas.net> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010615101342.0212ee28@mail.ideal.net.au>
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On 15-Jun-01 Chris Aitken wrote: > Hi everyone..... > > Ive been doing some research into my little script delemma and im wondering > if anyone has any suggestions. Basically, what I need is a nice simple perl > script I can execute like the following - > > % newscript abcdefg > > and basically making it take the first argument after the script, and spawn > off the following lines to execute the cu program - > > % cu -l /dev/cuaa1 -s 38400 > > abcdefg <ctrl z> > perldoc -f system perldoc -f foreach > > Im a novice at this stuff, but if I could see some sort of examples on how > to do this, I can work the rest out. In the first part of the proposed perl > script, it will access an sql database, get the needed data etc etc. I know > how to do the sql stuff, but the actual accessing cu and issuing it the > commands, the data and the CTRL Z command is baffling me. > Ctrl-Z ? -- Don Read dread@texas.net -- It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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