in reply to Re^4: opening browser from script
in thread opening browser from script

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.

--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}