Greetings wise brothers.

I am working on a perl program that calls a another executable on my system that I don't control. The second program is rather verbose and emits rather more output than I am not usualy interested in on stderr. I am currently calling it via system $program, @args

Rather than suppress output entirely, I am looking for a way to capture the output and log it via Log::Log4perl, as it may be usefull in future to debug problems. Is there a simple way to do this?

I found this node from 4 years ago, where it appears that the suplicant did control the child process. There is also an FAQ entry which handles the case of a perl module that the users is unwilling to modify by localy replacing print with something that diverts what it receves.

In reply to How to capture child process output and divert to log4perl by chrestomanci

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