Re: Can System() of Perl be bypassed?

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On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:35:30PM -0600, NESTING, DAVID M (SBCSI) wrote:
> >	open2(\*READ, \*WRITE, '/bin/grep', $sanitized_arg,
> >		"/usr/dict/words") or die;
> 
> Note also that in 5.8, if all you're interested in is STDOUT, Perl lets you
> do this:
> 
> open(FH, "-|", "/bin/grep", $sanitized_arg, "/usr/dict/words") or die ...;
> 
> This is somewhat equivalent to doing the fork and exec in list form, which
> would not invoke the shell to parse the command string.

I wrote System2 to collect STDOUT and STDERR, in a manner that
bypasses the shell as well.  Output is returned in a a scalar, not
a FH, which an important distinction.

  use System2;
  my ($out, $err) = system2("/bin/grep", $sanitized_arg, "/usr/dict/words");
  my ($exit_value, $signal_num, $dumped_core) = &System2::exit_status($?)

See <http://search.cpan.org/author/REICHERT/System2-0.82/System2.pm>

Same kinda approach, and behaves on older perl versions.

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