system command - redirect also the STDERR to a file

[MoshiachNow]

HI,

Running an AciveState on W2K,I dod not manage to redirect also the STDERR to a file.STDOUT is in the file "COPY",STDERR is not.

system("xcopy /f /y $_ >COPY 2>&1") ;

Appreciate any help.

Long live king Moshiach !

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[KevinADC]

did you try:

system("xcopy /f /y $_ >COPY 2>COPY") ;

- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!

 

[BrianAtWork]

Interesting... I'm running Active state on a win2k machine as well, and MoshiachNow's command worked for me, placing both stdout and stderr in the same file. I tried his command exactly which worked, and also tried a simple command like:

system("dir asdf >results 2>&1");

where asdf didn't exist, and results contains both err and out.

I don't know if Kevin's solution works, because that would be 2 streams writing to the same file at the same time... Maybe some versions can handle it though - mine won't

 

[MoshiachNow]

HI,

Ended up writing to 2 files:

system("xcopy /f /y $_ >COPY 2>COPY1") ;

Maybe the whole issue is due to the usage of the pp converter to exe ?

Thanks

Long live king Moshiach !

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