George Sinclair wrote:

I am still unable to perform the equivalent of the following simple
Bourne shell script in Perl:


I've tried all kinds of options involving '.', '-' characters. How can I
do this? Seems so easy and yet so frustrating.

It is fairly easy. You can use something similar to this example:

#!/usr/bin/perl

open NSRADMIN, "echo  \"show name
                       print type: NSR client\" | nsradmin -i - |";
while (<NSRADMIN>) {
        print; # or process as you wish
}
close NSRADMIN;

--
Note: To sign off this list, send a "signoff networker" command via email
to listserv AT listmail.temple DOT edu or visit the list's Web site at
http://listmail.temple.edu/archives/networker.html where you can
also view and post messages to the list. Questions regarding this list
should be sent to stan AT temple DOT edu
=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=