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Re: How to retreive a command's output, monitor execution time and

Joe Smith

2004-07-16, 8:56 pm

david wrote:

> writing a script where in an executable (.exe) is triggered from within the code

Are you talking about a script being used as a CGI?

> my $proc2 = Proc::Background->new("$command $arg1 >> result.csv");
> Though the
> above 2 statements ran successfully, the file result.csv is not created
> atall.

The file might be created in a different directory. In CGI programming,
the current directory may not be what you expect; you should use absolute
pathnames or do an explicit chdir().
-Joe

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