--- Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- Bob Mangold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > As mentioned eariler...
> >
> > --- Craig Moynes/Markham/IBM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You mentioned in the earlier email that you were calling your perl
> > script
> > via 'exec' (as I remember).
> > Could you not use something like
> > exec(' myperl.pl 2>&1 ' ) ?
> >
> > ok, this works, but what the heck is it doing. i've never seen that
> > syntax.
>
> lol -- it's not perl.
Okay, so it is Perl, but it's copied from the shell, lol....
I phrased that badly. ;o]
> exec spawns a new process to replace the current one.
> the argument ' myperl.pl 2>&1 ' is effectively run as if from the
> command line, but with the current environment. From a *NIX command
> prompt,
>
> myperl.pl 2>&1
>
> means run myperl.pl, and dup output stream 2 (the standard filehandle
> number for STDERR) to stream 1 (the standard filehandle number for
> STDOUT). Basically, this runs the script and lets the OS collect the
> STDERR output after the fact, and shunt it down the STDOUT pipe. =o)
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