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in reply to Re: Suppress/Reactivate STDERR
in thread Suppress/Reactivate STDERR

STDERR is not necessarily the same thing as file descriptor 3
s/3/2/

In recent Perl there's no need to use package variables for file handles to achieve this.

open my $olderr, '>&', \*STDERR or die $!; #... open STDERR, '>&', $olderr or die $!;