Getting output from system command invocations

Carl Mäsak cmasak at gmail.com
Mon Apr 20 14:33:17 UTC 2009


Mark (>), Carl (>>), Mark (>>>):
>> A long-standing feature request in Rakudo has been this:
>>
>>   my $output = `shell-command arg1 arg2`;
>>
>> I talked to Patrick Michaud about it, and he said that there's an old
>> ticket about this in RT (not Trac, due to the ticket's age). I didn't
>> find such a ticket; if someone knows which one it is, do tell me so
>> that I can upvote it.
>
> I think it's: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=62024

Thank you. I voted on that one, as well as the mentioned

 http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=46865

which seems to have what this thread is about as a precondition.

// Carl


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