Hey Monks,

I'm in a bit of a crunch. I'm running a tool and redirecting the output from it to a file. That is working fine, but I'm having problems trying to read from that file. I tried closing it and then reopening it again as stated in perlfunc open 
Though if you try to re-open "STDOUT" or "STDERR" as an "in
memory" file, you have to close it first:

    close STDOUT;
    open STDOUT, '>', \$variable or die "Can't open STDOUT: $!";

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but that isn't working for me. Could someone please explain what I'm doing wrong. Thanks.

use strict;
use warnings;


my $cmd = 'd:\clwhois.exe';
my $ip = '192.168.1.1';
my $file = 'd:\temp\output.txt';

open(STDOUT, ">$file") or die "Can't open $file: $!\n"; # redirect STD
+OUT to a temp file

system ("$cmd $ip") and warn "Can not execute $cmd: $!\n";

close STDOUT;

open(STDOUT, "$file") or die "Can't open $file: $!\n";

while (<STDOUT>){
  print;
}

close STDOUT;

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In reply to Reading from STDOUT after Redirecting it. by Dru

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