On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Dan Klose wrote:
> If I have a script, in my case on my linux machine, and I want to run
> that script using another script then I use the `` however you can use:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> system("./my-script <input>")
Why on earth would you do that?
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> `./my_script1 input1`;
> `./my_script2 output_of_script_1`;
> `./my_script3 output_of_script_2`;
I repeat: why on earth would you do that?
#!/bin/sh
cd /some/dir
./my-script1 input1 | ./my-script2 | ./my-script3
Perl is great and all, but sometimes it's no substitute for a two line
shell script. :-)
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Chris Devers
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