in reply to Async execution in Win32

system "start program 2>Xerr >Xout";

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Update: Doh! In the above, the redirections apply to start, but not to program. Here is something that works (tested): 

system 1, 'program 2>Xerr >Xout';

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Re^2: Async execution in Win32
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 15, 2006 at 02:15 UTC

    Your start version seems to work for me? 

    [0] Perl> system q[cmd /c del errors output];;
[0] Perl> system q[start /b perl -le"print for 1..10; die 'An error';"
+ 2>errors 1>output];;
[0] Perl> system q[cmd /c type errors output];;

errors


An error at -e line 1.

output


1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

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      You added "/b". That made a difference.
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