have
BEGIN
{
open (STDOUT, '>>/some/log/file')
}
if you want it to file
otherwise do,
open (STDOUT, "<&STDERR");
and with shellstuff, > redirects stdout, 2> redirects stderr so
system ("ls /apa >/dev/null 2>&1");
redirects both outputs to /dev/null
is that what you wanted?
/Jon
Alex Harris wrote:
>
> The program I'm writing is going to run under a cron job. Therefore its
> important that I catch all exceptions in a file and not have them return to
> the command line.
>
> For instance the following:
> (system("ls *.r > $plantfile")
> raises this exception at times:
> ls: 0653-341 The file *.r does not exist.
>
> What I want to happen is for that exception and its message to appear in a
> file, not the prompt line, AND for the program to continue on.
>
> Also, there are times where a certain exception will need to kill the
> program, but when I do a 'die' I also need it to be written to a file and
> NOT the command line.
>
> How do I accomplish these two things?
>
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