On 3/3/06, Families Laws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> what is the purpose of ". 2>&1 |" ? This is a AIX
> machine. Thanks.
> open(FILEHANDLE, "$PATH_TO_WSADMIN -f $tmpFile
> ". ' 2>&1 |');
The '2>&1' part is shell syntax meaning to redirect what would go to
filehandle 2 (STDERR) to file
I believe this is actually part of the shell command to open that
file. It redirects STDOUT and STDERR to a file (shell's, not
perl's). As for the "|", I don't know.
On Mar 3, 2006, at 1:12 PM, Families Laws wrote:
2>&1 |
