Hello,
> Seems like you're stuck again. Okay, the problem here is the
> ">/dev/null". Notice the ">" sign over there. It's the shell
> redirection metacharacter which causes "the shell" to pipe
> the output of
> one script to a file. When you use "system" in list context,
> like you're
> doing, you will not be able to use any shell metacharacters
> "> < | & && ...". The output of the program will go to STDOUT
> automatically--cannot be forwarded or piped.
Thanks for the detail, I prefer to understand why, not just how to make
things work.
> 1. Use the one-argument call to system just like you type
> your command
> from the shell.
> system "/dir1/dir2/prgname arg1 arg2 arg3 -p /tmp/kc >/dev/null";
Did this, works fine.
> 2. Check if "progname" has an option to shut it up. "Usually -q"
No
> If you're the one who wrote that program, then implement -q.
Not me so not possible.
> 3. Use the backticks and throw away the output:
> `/dir1/dir2/prgname arg1 arg2 arg3 -p /tmp/kc >/dev/null`;
> But this is bad since poor perl will do its best collecting data that
> you'll throw away anyways.
Will stick with 1.
> 4. Probably there are 10 MWTDI.
ditto
Thanks for the help. Much appreciated.
ken Cole
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