Re: Suppress unwanted text from Filesys::SmbClientParser

That is output from the underlying tool, (/usr/bin/)?smbclient. It's invoked in the private method _List with the -L arg (which gives that output) in methods: GetShr, GetHosts, and GetGroups. It seems to be sent to STDERR. That's why it's in your output and might even seem random since buffering for STDOUT might not match.

Thing could maybe be rewritten in a modern idiom with Capture::Tiny or something to catch and separate the layers but it is what it is today and what it is is a 15 year old module that does all its calls with `backticks` and it might have issues in general from age or underlying tool drift. You could always redirect STDERR and/or STDOUT in your code, or in the shell where you call your code, to separate the output at least.

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Re^2: Suppress unwanted text from Filesys::SmbClientParser by paullem (Sexton) on Nov 22, 2017 at 20:29 UTC
Thank you, it is a bot of a hack but it works perfectly. Thank you!	[reply]
Re^2: Suppress unwanted text from Filesys::SmbClientParser by glasswalk3r (Friar) on Nov 23, 2017 at 13:34 UTC
I guess it should be another solution in CPAN that uses XS and avoid doing additional system calls with the added value of not having to capture STDOUT and STDERR? I didn't search myself, but back in the day I was using Samba I remember that something was available to interact with it using Perl and XS. Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior --------------------------------- "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Sir Winston Churchill	[reply]