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 not

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 21); redirects both outputs to /dev/null is that what you wanted? /Jon Alex Harris wrote: