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Capture output of system() function
As far as capturing the output, does it matter if I'm on a Win32 platform (which I am) as opposed to a UNIX flavor operating system? I've seen the "2>&1" when writing scripts in UNIX, but I've never seen that used on a Windows platform. -
Capture output of system() function
Something else about the script I was trying to write is that I want perl to perform actions against a file I specify on the command line. Basically I type "perl script.pl <filename>" to run the script agains that file. One of the commands I run against this file does not produce output to the... -
Capture output of system() function
I'm trying to write a script that will write the output of a system("<some command>") function to a text file, however, the file that gets written has 0 bytes. Please help. -Josh
