| CC: | Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto <hlen [...] ig.com.br> |
| From: | Richard Soderberg <rsod [...] cpan.org> |
| Subject: | Re: IPC::Run(3) misleading |
| Date: | Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:00:44 -0800 |
| To: | bug-IPC-Run [...] rt.cpan.org |
I've patched documentation to say '<', 'in.txt' instead of 'in.txt', if
I understood your comments correctly. Thanks! Look for this to be in
the next CPAN release (0.80).
- R.
On Sep 4, 2004, at 6:59 AM, Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> At the start of IPC::Run's perldoc page, we have:
>
> ``
> # Can do I/O to sub refs and filenames, too:
> run \@cmd, "in.txt", \&out, \&err or die "cat: $?"
> run \@cat, "in.txt", '>>', "out.txt", '2>>', "err.txt" ;
> ''
>
> This code doesn't seem to work. Reading further down the documentation,
> we have:
>
> ``
> Redirecting from named files requires you to use the input redirection
> operator:
>
> run \@cat, '<.profile' ;
> run \@cat, '<', '.profile' ;
> ''
>
> This seems to be the problem, the operator is not being used in the
> headlines of the
> doc, which are misleading. Using it seems to solve things.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto
> <hlen@ig.com.br>
>
>