Re: STDOUT msg routing

Yes, all you need really is open, close and select. If you have the possibilities of multiple scripts/instances writing to the same destination file then you will want to think about locking too.

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Re^2: STDOUT msg routing by sandy105 (Scribe) on Feb 25, 2015 at 10:26 UTC
oh .okay i actually tried it before i opened a file handle like `open STDOUT, '>', "files.out"` and then closed the filehandle at end of script , but it throws a compilation error at first print staement	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: STDOUT msg routing by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 25, 2015 at 10:28 UTC
The way you showed is the usual way to redirect a filehandle to a (different) file in Perl. Maybe you can tell us the compilation error?	[reply]