On Jan 28, 9:46 pm, r...@kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Raymond Wan) wrote: > Hi, > > inetquestionwrote: > > for the example perl script below is there a way to avoid errors from > > showing up in stdout if the shell script being called does not exist? > > The shell script being called is not in the same directory as the perl > > script, but is in the path. Otherwise I would just do a check to see > > if it exist before calling it. redirecting the output to /dev/null > > doesn't seem to work. > > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > > `sm_timeline.sh $0 "socket usage" 2>/dev/null`; > > print "hello\n"; > > So, if you want to check to see if the file exists, then you just use the > appropriate file test from here: > > http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/-X.html > > If you want to redirect stdout to /dev/null, then you will need: > "1>/dev/null". "2" is stderr. If you want both going to /dev/null, then: > > 1>/dev/null 2>&1 > > would send stderr to the same place you sent stdout. > > Was this what you were looking for? > > Ray
This works on fedora, but not on solaris. any suggestions? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
