Re^4: opening browser from script

Actually, I meant

 
    if (`firefox&`)
    {print "no browser found\n"}
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but I wrote it wrong in the previous post! I should better pay attention next time I start hearing "Brain overflow...out of memory"

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Re^5: opening browser from script by shmem (Chancellor) on May 17, 2007 at 14:46 UTC
That's *bogus*, and you are still not getting STDERR: if(`nonexisting &`) { die "running 'nonexisting' produced whatever output.\n" } print "all well.\n"; __END__ sh: nonexisting: command not found all well. [download] --shmem _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo. G°\ / /\_¯/(q / ---------------------------- \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."· ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^5: opening browser from script
by shmem (Chancellor) on May 17, 2007 at 14:46 UTC

bogus

if(`nonexisting &`) {
    die "running 'nonexisting' produced whatever output.\n"
}
print "all well.\n";
__END__
sh: nonexisting: command not found
all well.
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--shmem

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

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