On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 08:51:01PM -0400, Wes Owen wrote:
> I am trying to capture the output of:
>
> perl -w frank > text.file
> Can't open perl script "frank": No such file or directory
> less text.file
>
> and text.file is empty. Instead of "Can't open perl script "frank": No
> such file or directory" going to the file, it is outputted to the
> screen. Is there any way to capture the output of perl -w? I am doing
> this though a bash cgi script, so what prints to the screen doesn't always
> show up on the web.
the error message is being printed to the stderr stream. Use this
syntax instead:
perl -w frank >& test.file
BTW: This syntax is bash specific. If you're using a csh derivative,
it works slightly differently.
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