There's no example of how to do this!  Can someone post an example?  I
want something like:
open(DOIT,"| command1 | command2 | command3 | command4 | command5 |");

I've seen this question asked before, but didn't have a reason to read
it, so I apologize :)

[I'm using 4.036, but a Perl 5 solution (if different) would be welcome too]

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Matt> Camel, P. 163: "You may not have an open command that pipes both in and
Matt> out, though it's easy to build one using the pipe and fork commands"

Matt> There's no example of how to do this!  Can someone post an example?  I
Matt> want something like:
Matt> open(DOIT,"| command1 | command2 | command3 | command4 | command5 |");

I believe the answer from the FAQ is "see open2.pl and open3.pl, in
the library".

Why do you think we have a FAQ? :-)

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In comp.lang.perl.misc,

:Camel, P. 163: "You may not have an open command that pipes both in and
:out, though it's easy to build one using the pipe and fork commands"
:
:There's no example of how to do this!  Can someone post an example?  

That's a FAQ, http://www.perl.com/perl/faq/Q5.14.html to be precise.

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