Re: Run an external program and capture its output

On 17/04/2014 10:02, John Emmas wrote:
> if I run this command (directly from a DOS Command Prompt) it does 
> populate 'test.txt' with the expected output:-
>
>         gtk-update-icon-cache --force --ignore-theme-index --source 
> builtin_icons  gtk/stock-icons > test.txt
>
> So in other words, the actual command is valid.  It works when run 
> from a command line but I can't seem to make it work from a perl 
> script  :-(
>

FWIW this command sequence in my perl script seems to work!

         use IPC::Run3;
         my $output;
         run3(["gtk-update-icon-cache", "--force", 
"--ignore-theme-index", "--source", "builtin_icons", "gtk/stock-icons"], 
\undef, "test.txt");

Does that seem like a reasonable solution?  So far, I've only tested it 
on Windows XP (one of the platforms where it wasn't previously 
working).  I'll need to re-test it on Win7 and Win8.

John