On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:44:57 -0700, Dan Fish wrote:
> I've got a perl wrapper that conditionally runs another perl program using
> system()
>
> If( some_condition_applies){
>
> system("myperlscript.pl");
>
> }
>
> myperlscript.pl will complete silently if everything runs right, but
> because it reads some data files and interfaces to a mySQL database, there
> are times when it may encounter unforeseen errors.
>
> IF there is any output from myperlscript.pl, I'd like to capture it and send
> it off in an email. The sending in an email part I can handle. and I think
> I can probably redirect the output of myperlscript.pl to a file and read
> that, but is there a better, more elegant way to capture any stdout/stderr
> output WITHOUT having to redirect and read another file?
Look up backticks in perldoc perlop:
my $output = `myperlscript.pl 2>&1`;
send_email($output) if $output;
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