=head1 NAME
-perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.2 $, $Date: 2001/10/16 13:27:22 $)
+perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2001/11/09 08:06:04 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Note that you I<must> use Bourne shell (sh(1)) redirection syntax in
backticks, not csh(1)! Details on why Perl's system() and backtick
and pipe opens all use the Bourne shell are in
-http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/FMTEYEWTK/versus/csh.whynot .
+http://www.cpan.org/doc/FMTEYEWTK/versus/csh.whynot .
To capture a command's STDERR and STDOUT together:
$output = `cmd 2>&1`; # either with backticks
=head2 Can I use perl to run a telnet or ftp session?
Try the Net::FTP, TCP::Client, and Net::Telnet modules (available from
-CPAN). http://www.perl.com/CPAN/scripts/netstuff/telnet.emul.shar
+CPAN). http://www.cpan.org/scripts/netstuff/telnet.emul.shar
will also help for emulating the telnet protocol, but Net::Telnet is
quite probably easier to use..
=head2 How do I use an SQL database?
There are a number of excellent interfaces to SQL databases. See the
-DBD::* modules available from http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/DBD .
-A lot of information on this can be found at
-http://www.symbolstone.org/technology/perl/DBI/
+DBD::* modules available from http://www.cpan.org/modules/DBD .
+A lot of information on this can be found at http://dbi.perl.org/
=head2 How do I make a system() exit on control-C?