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in thread "close" failing

You don't have to die always. $! will tell you the error.
Also, in a web app it would be nice to inform the user that something is going wrong, instead of printing 'Internal Server Error' or sth similar.

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Re^3: "close" failing
by munishdev (Initiate) on May 31, 2006 at 14:20 UTC
    Another strange thing i found is that if i add ">", in front of abc.sh, it works for me. Can you tell what will ">" do to my script? open (SNMP1, ">abc.sh |") or die "Cannot run abc.sh $!"; while (<SNMP1>) { # do some processing } close (SNMP1) or die "ERROR: testing $! $?\n ";

      Please use the <code> tags!

      You will find you have create a file called abc.sh| in your current working directory. If you had warnings on you would also be warned about trying to read from a file handle opened for writing.

      /J\