Chris Rodriguez wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I saw the following on another PERL list-serve:
>
> "If you are on windows, then see perlfaq8 if ActiveState perl for
> how to redirect STDOUT and STDERR when doing backticks."
>
> I'd like to be able to capture STDOUT as a string. But nothing on perlfaq8
> struck me as relevant. Did I miss something? How do I do this? I
> frequently get drastic errors (my computer shuts down!) when I try to use
> backticks.
Did you read:
How can I capture STDERR from an external command?
Also check out the perlop man page under:
qx/STRING/
`STRING`
...
$output = `cmd`;
# or grab STDERR as well
$output = `cmd 2>&1`;
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