'2>&1' works on WinNT. I am not so confident that it works in the standard
shell for win 9x. Has anyone verified this?
> Behalf Of Bellenger, Bruno (Paris)
>
>
> >"Hogue, Jon" wrote:
> >> I want to run a dos command and play with the output of the
> command.
> >>
> >> For example,
> >>
> >> If I do system("foo.exe"), how do I get the ouput of foo.exe.
> (not the exit
> >> status).
>
> >Open it in a pipe:
> >#open(FOO, "foo.exe|");
>
> open(FOO, "foo.exe| 2>&1");
> # adding '2>&1' will get you what foo.exe writes to STDERR too,
> # not just STDOUT
> # An alternative if you're not expecting lots of lines is the simpler :
> @foo_return = `foo.exe` ;
> # Note : The above uses backticks, not single quotes.
> # Each element of @foo_return now contains one line of foo.exe's
> # output (including the newline/carriage return char.).
>
> >(Note: I've assumed this works on Perl-Win32. I've only used it on Unix.)
>
> It does work on WIN32.
>
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