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How do I dup() a filehandle in Perl?

by faq_monk (Initiate)
on Oct 13, 1999 at 03:42 UTC ( [id://815]=perlfaq nodetype: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

Current Perl documentation can be found at perldoc.perl.org.

Here is our local, out-dated (pre-5.6) version:

If you check open, you'll see that several of the ways to call open() should do the trick. For example:

    open(LOG, ">>/tmp/logfile");
    open(STDERR, ">&LOG");

Or even with a literal numeric descriptor:

   $fd = $ENV{MHCONTEXTFD};
   open(MHCONTEXT, "<&=$fd");   # like fdopen(3S)

Note that ``<&STDIN'' makes a copy, but ``<&=STDIN'' make an alias. That means if you close an aliased handle, all aliases become inaccessible. This is not true with a copied one.

Error checking, as always, has been left as an exercise for the reader.

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