Hello,
I was wondering if it's possible to save the error of a DOS command from the error stream into a variable.
For example, the STDOUT of a DOS command can be saved to a variable this way:
$var = `dir`; # Using back quotes
but this won't save anything from STDERR.
you could try the old 2>&1 trick $out = `$cmd 2>&1`;
I believe this requires proper handling by the shell, which DOS might do.
or use system() and read the docs for capturing error codes:
This doesn't really provide the contents of STDERR though, only an exit code...
example:
system("blah blah");
my $err = $? >> 8; if ($err) { print "we got errors" }
If neither of the above work you may also want to check out the IPC::Open3 standard module, though I don't know whether or not it works on M$ systems.
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