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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to return a value of a variable from shell script to perl script Post 302372354 by adderek on Tuesday 17th of November 2009 06:30:49 PM
Old 11-17-2009
StdOut, StdErr - you can catch them.
Return code - a value which is 0 or !0. 0=SUCCESS, !0=FAILURE (according to POSIX). There are exceptions like diff. Return code should be between 0 and 127 but might be different.
There are other possibilities as well... google for inter-process communication.
 

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Data::Faker::StreetAddress(3pm) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   Data::Faker::StreetAddress(3pm)

NAME
Data::Faker::StreetAddress - Data::Faker plugin SYNOPSIS AND USAGE
See Data::Faker DATA PROVIDERS
us_zip_code Return a random zip or zip+4 zip code in the US zip code format. Note that this is not necessarily a valid zip code, just a 5 or 9 digit number in the correct format. us_state Return a random US state name. us_state_abbr Return a random US state abbreviation. (Includes US Territories and AE, AA, AP military designations.) From the USPS list at http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/usps_abbreviations.html street_suffix Return a random street suffix (Drive, Street, Road, etc.) From the USPS list at http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/usps_abbreviations.html street_name Return a fake street name. street_address Return a fake street address. secondary_unit_designator Return a random secondary unit designator, with a range if needed (secondary unit designators are things like apartment number, building number, suite, penthouse, etc that differentiate different units with a common address.) secondary_unit_number Return a random secondary unit number, for the secondary unit designators that take ranges. SEE ALSO
Data::Faker AUTHOR
Jason Kohles, <email@jasonkohles.com> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2004-2005 by Jason Kohles This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.10.1 2005-07-14 Data::Faker::StreetAddress(3pm)
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