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Thanks. My vote for the best solution is the first one. 
perl errorToOut.pl 2> output.txt

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Simple, a bit cryptic, but it works.

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Re^2: How do I output error messages to a file?
by renz (Scribe) on Jan 26, 2005 at 14:59 UTC
    2>file is a pretty standard way to redirect errors. Unix has been doing it since the dawn of time.

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    /renz.
    "I often wonder if I really need all of these bones." --Sean Stolon.
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Re^2: How do I output error messages to a file?
by tphyahoo (Vicar) on Jan 27, 2005 at 09:40 UTC
    On second thought, I am beginning to see the beauty of 
    open STDERR, ">", "/path/to/log";

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    which I will be coupling this with 
    open STDOUT, ">", "path/to/log";

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    I debug more with print statements than with the perl debugger, so this allows me to see my debugging statements along with the more serious perl complaints to see where my code is acting up.

    Thanks again to everyone who enlightened me.

    UPDATE: Here's a simple demonstration that may be helpful to newbies. 

    #errorToOut.pl
use strict;
use warnings;

open STDERR, ">>", "log.txt";
open STDOUT, ">>", "log.txt";

#outputted to stderr
warn "warning!";
#outputted to stdout
print "Test.";

#Log.txt winds up looking like:
#warning! at errorToOut.pl line 9.
#Test.

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