iwextattr through perl

Is it possible to run iwextattr from within a perl script? I currently have a perl script generating dcr's and want to run iwextattr automatically on all the dcr's created by the perl script , but am not sure what would be the best way to do this.

Any ideas are appreciated.

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ISCBorisB

Any ideas are appreciated.

Here is a good one: Click "Search", type iwextattr and click "Enter". I guarantee few hundred hits with several threads
answering your question on every search-result Page including the first one

kaalraa

Is it possible to run iwextattr from within a perl script? I currently have a perl script generating dcr's and want to run iwextattr automatically on all the dcr's created by the perl script , but am not sure what would be the best way to do this.

Any ideas are appreciated.

Any CLT can run thru perl script just as you can run a system/UNIX command from the same.

`$cmd 2>&1` where $cmd is the complete command to be executed.

sun9

Any CLT can run thru perl script just as you can run a system/UNIX command from the same.

`$cmd 2>&1` where $cmd is the complete command to be executed.

Thanks this helped. I did not use `` earlier so my perl script kept giving me syntax errors pointing to the location where I had placed the iwextattr command.

Migrateduser

The syntax that kaalraa provided will return any errors to STDOUT, so you may want to capture that and proceed appropriately if there is an error.

Dave

Adam Stoller

The syntax that kaalraa provided will return any errors to STDOUT, so you may want to capture that and proceed appropriately if there is an error.

Dave

Also you may prefer (as I do) to use:

my $results = qx($cmd 2>&1);

as it avoids the potential confusion between single-quotes (

) and back-ticks (

) which can occur easily if the font your editor uses does not emphasize the distinction.

Migrateduser

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miletwo

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