Chas. Owens wrote:
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 00:52, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i have a c program that I want to just run from perl and capture output
I would have thought
my $c_output = `/tmp/c_program`;
would get me the output of the program.
instead it prints out to the screen.
Is there way to redirect STOUT just for that line and put it back to normal?
Take a closer look at your c program. Backticks do indeed grab
stdout, so it must be writing to stderr (or worse yet the console).
Try
my $c_output = `/tmp/c_program 2>&1`;
thank you guys!!
2>&1 fixed the issue..
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