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> I want to get the error message from a system call as a text string
> and not a numeric code. The error I see on the screen is:
>
> cp: cannot create /tmp/dev/fin/test/test.inf: Permission denied
>
> but when I check $! for an error string, it is blank. $? does
> contain an error code, but I'm not sure how I would translate it to a
> text string. I also tried saving the output to a variable, but it
> doesn't contain the error message:
>
> my $out = `$cmd`;
That's because this way you are only capturing the $cmd's STDOUT, not
its STDERR.
You have to do this:
my $out = `$cmd 2>&1`;
# tested under Win2k, you may need to use `$cmd 2>1` under Unix
# I don't know.
Jenda
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