Bill Luebkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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`;
Hi. "cmd" refers to any command, right? Neither formulation works for me. If
I do:
$output = `perl -c somescript.pl`;
I see "somescript.pl syntax OK" on the screen, and the variable $output
remains unassigned. If I do:
$output = `perl -c somescript.pl 2>&1`;
I get a message saying "This program has performed an illegal operation..."
and I have to turn off my computer.
I've had the same problem using qx too. Could it be that I'm using PERL 5.6?
Chris
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