>
> I am still unable to perform the equivalent of the following simple
> Bourne shell script in Perl:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/sbin/nsradmin -s orion -i -<<EOF
> print type: NSR $1; name: $2
> EOF

> I submitted this question prior and received some nice suggestions but
> none of these worked. Here are the things I've tried that do not work:
>
> Option 1:
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> system ("/usr/sbin/nsradmin -s server -i " . <<EOF);
> print type: NSR $ARGV[0]; name: $ARGV[1]
> EOF

Ouch.  I think I suggested that without testing.  That won't work at
all.  There, the command is passed on the command line, not as stdin.

> Option 3:
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> open (ADM, "|/usr/sbin/nsradmin -s server -i") or
>    die "Couldn't open pipe to nsradmin.\n";
> print ADM "type: NSR $ARGV[0]; name: $ARGV[1]\n";
>
> Invoked as: same as option 1
>
> Produces following output:
> usage: nsradmin [-c] [-i file] [-s server] [-p prognum] [-v version]
> [query]...

There's no 'print' at the beginning of the command.  It should be..

print ADM "print type: NS......

That's just a typo in the nsradmin command, not in the structure of what
you're doing.

> Option 4:
> !/usr/bin/perl
> @reply = `/usr/sbin/nsradmin -s orion -i <<EOF`;
> print type: NSR $ARGV[0]; name: $ARGV[1]
> EOF
>
> Invoked as: same as option 1
>
> Produces following output:
> syntax error at ./c.pl line 3, near "type:"

That won't do any better than 1/2, because again, the commands are
coming in to nsradmin on the command line instead of via STDIN.

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