Re: catching an exception before it reaches command line

2002-01-17 Thread Jon Molin
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

catching an exception before it reaches command line

2002-01-17 Thread Alex Harris
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 no