ASR9000 perl scripting in the shell environment

Hi everybody,
I am writing a perl embedded script in order to get information about pseudowires.
I need to get the output of this ksh command: l2vpn_show -d 0x1 | grep -E "(Group.*XC)"
The problem is that when I execute this command by the shell CLI it works. If I try to make it run by a perl program it faults, probably because the | (pipe) char is not execute.
The line I write is:
my $cli_output = `l2vpn_show -d 0x1 | grep -E "(Group.*XC)"`;
It faults even this command:
my $cli_output = `l2vpn_show -d 0x1 | grep Group`;
Any hint to help me?
Regards
Raffaele Tostini

you can use perl and ksh scripting and officially supported EEM (with TCL). My idea was not to change to another language but to show that in perl itself it is not straight forward to pipe commands from shell and if there is a need to get specific lines from $cli_output then you parce this variable by using perl like
my $cli = `l2vpn_show -d 0x1` ;
my @lines = split /\n/, $cli;
foreach my $line( @lines ) {
if ($line =~ /Group.*XC/) {
print $line . "\n";
Regards,
/A

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In my applet I have code that calls (I think) a Perl script through a URL connection and passes the name of the file that needs to be moved:
URL urlMove = new URL("http://myserver.com/cgi-bin/fileMove.pl?" + fileToMove);
URLConnection urlConn = urlMove.openConnection();
In the cgi-bin I have a perl script (fileMove.pl) that performs the move:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI qw(:standard);
$pfile = $ENV{?QUERY_STRING?};
$cmd = ?mv stageArea/$pfile $pfile?;
system $cmd;
The Perl script works fine when I call it directly from Internet Explorer, but when I call the script from the Applet the file is not moved. Am I doing something wrong?

Got it to work!
Changed the Java code to:
URL urlMove = new URL("http://myserver.com/cgi-bin/fileMove.pl?" + fileToMove);
urlMove.openConnection();
InputStream moveStream = urlMove.openStream();
and in the Perl script added the line:
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
The applet running my a PC is now effortlessly moving files on the unix server, wahoo.
Aside: I also found that my applet web server and the files the applet reads/writes do not have to be on the same machine. In the applet's cgi-bin directory I created a "link" to the networked unix directory where the image files are actually located. I really expected the Applet I/O Security to complain, but it work like a charm. Go figure.

ASR9000 perl scripting in the shell environment

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