I think that you will have to write a wrapper application that reads the executable output line by line and writes that output into a different logfile - as long as you can make the external application write everything to stdout/stderr, this should be possible. I don't have the time to create a working script, but here are some simple cases that could work (depending on the application) :

open APP, 'application.exe |' or die "Uhoh : $!"; while (<APP>) { my $filename = get_logfilename_of_today; open LOG, "<", $filename; print LOG $_; close LOG; };

The above part only works if the application does not write to STDERR. perldoc perlipc suggests the following snipped if you need to read and write :

use FileHandle; use IPC::Open2; $pid = open2(*Reader, *Writer, "cat -u -n" ); print Writer "stuff\n"; $got = <Reader>;

If you need to read and write, also take a look at IO::Select.

perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ; # The $d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider ($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new #in the HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' # web

In reply to Re: Re: Re: how to cath STDOUT from an external app, that never exits? by Corion
in thread how to catch STDOUT from an external app, that never exits? by ThorstenHirsch

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