Hi Craig,
As I understand it, perl calls a shell to run the command you specify so you
should be able to use standard shell redirectors, as in:
open(INPUT,"$findCMD 2>&1|")
which should DUP the stderr to stdout for you. (not tested)
Gary
On Tuesday 19 June 2001 4:09 pm, Craig Moynes/Markham/IBM wrote:
> Hi,
> I am running several commands within my perl script (on AIX 4.3.3).
> These commands include find, chmod, etc.
> What I am wondering is if anyone has a sample script kicking around where
> they execute the command and check the return code, grabbing any output
> (stderr or stdout) and printing it in the error message.
>
> My problem right now is I am executing the commands and piping the output
> within the open command:
> open( INPUT, "$findCMD|" )
>
> If the find command fails then i loose the error message ( and the return
> code), but I can read the stdout into perl very easily.
>
> I'm looking for an small elegant solution (as the script is fairly small).
> But I will use suggestions involving the redirecting of output to seperate
> files if I have to.
>
> Thanks all :)
>
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> netCC Development
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