'System' looking inside files

[Meatsim]

Hello all, I have yet another problem! (Yay.) This time I have a problem with getting the System command to work with info in an external data file.

The code snippet I'm dealing with looks a bit like this:

$runfile = "run.tmp";
open(CVSRUN, $runfile) or die

...

system "cvs admin $runfile"
[code]
All the info that I need to change CVS's repository is in the file $runfile, but I can't get at the contents of $runfile with this command - so it ends up replacing things in CVS willy-nilly with "$runfile". (Um...or so I've been told, anyway. Naturally, I, um, wouldn't do anything so careless as to execute an unfinished code fragment. (Don't worry, I've got a backup handy.))

Any help with this will be very much appricated.

Thanks,
Meatsim

 

[tsdragon]

A couple of questions:

Why are you opening the file for input to your program, and also using it as input to cvs?

Have you tried piping the runfile to cvs? (Like this:

system &quot;cvs admin <$runfile&quot;;

I think we need a little more info or code to really help with this question.

Tracy Dryden
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