I have been banging my head for a few hours today on a problem. I am using the latest release of AS Perl and running window xp pro.

It looks like trying to pipe backtick STDERR output to STDOUT doesnt work. Just to make it more simplistic I tried redirecting STDERR to a file like:

my $compileResults = `C:/Perl/bin/perl.exe -c D:/tempPerlScript2860.ipl 2>D:/output.txt`;

...which does not work (meaning I don't see anything within output.txt). However, if I actually just type the following into a windows command prompt, the output.txt file is updated with compilation error message:

C:/Perl/bin/perl.exe -c D:/tempPerlScript2860.ipl 2>D:/output.txt

Any idea on why it would work if I directly input the command into a command line but would not work when I try and execute it via the backticks opperator in a CGI file? From what I can see after reading a lot of information on the subject, it should work fine. Note that I am trying to send it to a file since 2>$1 is not working either.

In reply to STDERR Redirection problems by darrenbock

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