Hello Monks,

This is my first post.

I am trying to get the output of an executable in a file. This worked fine with Win2003 but on win2008 server due to compatibility issues, I changed the settings to win2003 SP1 for the executable to run. Honestly I am working on 2008 for the first time.

I see that the out put is getting forked in a new cmd prompt and exits after execution.Is there a way I can get the o/p from this forked window?

Error from the below program in my output file is "child exited with value 0".I am opeing a Dir, running tool.exe for each of the file in side it and spooling output to my file.

Thanks Xhings 

@files = readdir DH;

open STDOUT, '> '.$Location2.'\ProcessedFilesInDir.txt';

foreach $file (@files) {

   $file1 = "tool.exe [- options]";
   system ($file1) == 0 or die "system @args failed: $?";

if ($? == -1) {
    print "failed to execute: $!\n";
    }
elsif ($? & 127) {
    printf "child died with signal %d, %s coredump\n", ($? & 127),  ($
+? & 128) ? 'with' : 'without';
    } 
else {
    printf "child exited with value %d\n", $? >> 8;
    }
}

close STDOUT;

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In reply to How to get output from a spawned cmd prompt? by Xhings

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