bsdz wrote:
Quote:
> I need to pipe the output from a powershell commandlet to a perl
> process. In its simplest form when I try: -
>
> PS> 1..3 | perl -ne 'print "#$_#\n"'
The short answer is that it doesn't work quite that way. The pipeline is meant
for use with cmdlets and Perl.exe doesn't speak that language. Not to worry, the
syntax required is only slightly different and requires the foreach-object cmdlet.
1..3 | foreach-object { perl -ne 'print "#$_#\n"' }
Just be careful with your quotes and escape characters, those may be a challenge
with Perl especially as it shares a lot of those with PowerShell. I'm afraid
the $_ above won't be expanded as the larger string is within single quotes.
Good luck with that.
You can always do double-double-quotes or escape them
with the backtick and so on.
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