Dears Monks,

I could use some help.
I am executing sqlldr from a perl script like so ...
my $cmd = "sqlldr userid=xyz/xyz@xyz control=myfile.ctl";
if( OUT, open( "$cmd|" ) ) {
    while(<OUT>) {
         if (/'error'/i) {
             print "Holy balony! The server is down Batman!";
             ...
         } else {
             print $_;
         }
         
    }
}

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The problem I am have is that the database is down
but my script does not realize that because all I
see is the STDOUT ... I assume.

How can I get the STDERR output so I can search for
/'error'/ ?

In reply to Catching STDERR with open ( by rbc

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