Re: Sending STDERR to a filehandle

change:

$pid = open(ERROR, "$cmd 2>&1 1>/dev/null |");
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$pid = open(ERROR, "$cmd 1>/dev/null 2>&1 |");
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I know that in Unix, putting them the wrong way around causes the same symptoms you are talking about.

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Re: Re: Sending STDERR to a filehandle by bobn (Chaplain) on Jun 10, 2003 at 17:08 UTC
Actually, you're the one that has it backwards. Although most things hapopen letf-to-right, I've always found tht redirections happen right to left. Hence, you've arranged for STDOUT and STDERR both to go to /dev/null. --Bob Niederman, http://bob-n.com	[reply]