From: craigberry@nospam.mac.com   
      
   On 5/11/25 6:24 PM, bill wrote:   
   > On 5/11/2025 3:17 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:   
   >> On 5/9/25 11:32 PM, David Meyer wrote:   
   >>> I found that one way to do it is to put all the processing that uses the   
   >>> command output inside subshells in the same PIPE command.   
   >>>   
   >>> One shortcoming of this method is that it's very easy to go over the   
   >>> maximum command element length allowed inside the PIPE. For my   
   >>> procedure, I was able to get around this by choosing lexical functions   
   >>> to minimize the length of the PIPE command.   
   >>>   
   >>> Any other way to do this?   
   >>   
   >> It's pretty easy with Perl:   
   >>   
   >> $ perl -"MVMS::DCLsym" -e "$x=`show time`; VMS::DCLsym-   
   >> >setsym('mysym', $x, 'GLOBAL');"   
   >> $ SHOW SYMBOL mysym   
   >>    MYSYM == "   11-MAY-2025 14:10:89."   
   >>   
   >   
   > It's probably easy to do in a lot of scripting languages.   
   > But the original request specified DCL.  Might be he   
   > expects the script to have to run on machines that only   
   > have VMS on them.   
      
   On OpenVMS x86, Perl is part of the base install, so it's always there.   
      
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