Re: executing commands and getting output

[bm]

Use backticks. This only captures STDOUT, so you should add shell redirection to capture any errors that appear on STDERR:

 
my $cmd = '/this/is/a/command -sdfw';
my $result = `$cmd 2>&1`;
do_something() if ($result =~ /regex/);

see  perldoc -q capture
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bm