Re: Pipe and Par questions

"E.D.G." <edgrsprj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is there a specific reason why you stealth CCed me? I happen to read the
NGs I am writing in!

Are you trying to control the other program from you Perl program? Then
you may want to check out Expect.

Yes. I would like Perl to send commands and data directly to another
program. I had not heard of an "Expect" command but will check on it.

It's not a command (well, it could be on Unix) but a Perl module that
provides an interface similar to the expect utility.

jue
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Great SWT Program
    ... (and has a command to toggle display of markup, ... unlike Java's for and while syntax. ... Writing a script to strip the ... prose in a very artificially consistent sort of way, ...
    (comp.lang.java.programmer)
  • Re: minimum valid block size on DVD-RAM
    ... size accepted by DVD (writing) devices when writing ... a DVD-RAM is, like on nearly all other DVDs and CDs, ... I'd now like to know whether most of the available DVD-writers ... Please report me whether command 3 and command 2 succeed ...
    (freebsd-questions)
  • minimum valid block size on DVD-RAM
    ... size accepted by DVD (writing) devices when writing ... a DVD-RAM is, like on nearly all other DVDs and CDs, ... I'd now like to know whether most of the available DVD-writers ... Please report me whether command 3 and command 2 succeed ...
    (freebsd-questions)
  • Re: Great SWT Program
    ... (and has a command to toggle display of markup, ... have to consult the documentation for my shell of choice. ... and a particularly hairy syntax for distinguishing variables ... Writing a script to strip the ...
    (comp.lang.java.programmer)
  • Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects
    ... different part of the disk. ... If writing zeros or whatever to a file (that may or may not overwrite ... separate features should be implemented in separate commands. ... is just not a good command to write a lot of data into a file. ...
    (freebsd-hackers)