[nlug] Re: Running Commands in Perl

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From: Scott Carr (Yeah, right)
Date: 02/09/06

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    Why not just do the FTP from within PERL?

    http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/libnet-1.19/Net/FTP.pm

    Paul Boniol wrote:
    > I know there are a couple of ways to execute an external program with
    > Perl, but what I know of is more like spawning external processes. Is
    > there a way to run a command line tool "interactively" with Perl, so
    > that it sees what the responses are, and can give it different
    > commands based on the responses.
    >
    > In this particular case, I'd like to run ftp to transfer a file,
    > verify there was no error, and then continue processing. If there
    > were an error (like server unreachable, etc.) I'd do put out a warning
    > and do something different (haven't thought out what yet...).
    >
    > Thanks,
    > Paul 

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