You can try temporarily redirecting STDERR to your file. I think it's something like this:
open(OLDSTDERR,">&STDERR") || die; open(STDERR,">err.log") || die; Then you can put it back the same way. Someone please correct me if I have the syntax wrong. I can't test it here. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 6:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Want to get error return as text string? I want to get the error message from a system call as a text string and not a numeric code. The error I see on the screen is: cp: cannot create /tmp/dev/fin/test/test.inf: Permission denied but when I check $! for an error string, it is blank. $? does contain an error code, but I'm not sure how I would translate it to a text string. I also tried saving the output to a variable, but it doesn't contain the error message: my $out = `$cmd`; Any suggestions. Thanks for any help in advance! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
