Hi; I'm using a qx call to "net user username /DOMAIN" (probably should use system instead) to determine whether a person having an active account in an application is still an employee.
I get two messages back (error and/or usage) when a username is not found. "The user name could not be found." and "More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2221." I'd like to hide (not display, not print) these two messages. Coming from a UNIX/Linux background, I'd do a "2>&1 > /dev/null" operation to dispose of STDOUT and STDERR, but "1<&2 > NUL" (suggested by "https://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/redirection.mspx?mfr=true"; does not seem to work. I tried file descriptor 3, but that resulted in an error regarding unsupported file handle,. or something like that. I was considering using IPC::Run3, but I don't think that will help with suppressing error message and usage message. Perhaps there is a Perl module that is native to Cygwin that will perform this kind of lookup for me? Maybe a Perl module that is NOT native to Cygwin? Thanks, Ken Wolcott -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
