Wening Andreas wrote: > Hi all, > > I posted a similar question a while ago but the answers didn't really > resolve my problem. > > I want to redirect all output in a file. Therefore I start my script like: > myscript.pl >>logfile.txt > > That works fine for STDOUT but all error messages don't get into that file, > no I got the suggestion to do: > myscript.pl >>logfile.txt 2>&1 > > That adds the STDERR output to my file but not at the right time. So my log > file contains all the STDOUT output and then all the STDERR output. I want > to have the errormessages exactly then written to the logfile when they > happen and I'm wondering if I can redirect the stream to STDOUT like: > open STDERR, ">> STDOUT" > > But this didn't work. I also tried to write to the same file like: > open STDERR, ">> logfile.txt"; > but this didn't work too (I guess I can assign a file only to one output > stream). > > Can anybody help?
Try in your script: $| = 1; # unbuffer STDOUT (since STDERR is unbuffered) open STDERR, ">&STDOUT"; -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert ICQ=14439852 (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / ) /--< o // // http://dbecoll.tripod.com/ (Free site for Perl) -/-' /___/_<_</_</_ Castle of Medieval Myth & Magic http://www.todbe.com/ _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
