On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Alex Brelsfoard wrote:
> OK, so I know there's an easy-ish way to handle this situation. But I'm
> currently running in circles, not finding the solution. Basically what I'm
> trying to do is run a system command (with either `command` or
> system("commnad") ) and retrieve the printed result form the command into a
> variable of some sort.
> So think of it this way:
> my $info = `ls`;
And this doesn't work? Is your command outputting on STDOUT or STDERR? If it's
dumping its output on STDERR, try adding "2>&1" to the end of your command in
back-ticks, that will redirect STDERR to STDOUT, and might get the output
captured properly (though I haven't tried it).
Tim Wilde
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