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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

by Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour
June 2002
Beginner content levelBeginner
759 pages
80h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

open2

Synopsis

open2 (\*rdr, \*wtr, cmd_with_args)

Forks a child process to execute the specified command. Takes the following arguments:

\* rdr

Represents a read filehandle that your program can use to read from the command $cmd’s standard output. Can be a filehandle object or a reference to a typeglob.

\* wtr

Represents a write filehandle that your program can use to write to the command $cmd’s standard input. Can be a filehandle object or a reference to a typeglob.

cmd_with_args

The command to be executed by the child process and its arguments. Can be specified two ways:

$cmd_with_args
$cmd, "arg1", "arg2", ...
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