perl script not giving output

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Re: perl script not giving output by Fletch (Bishop) on Feb 04, 2008 at 04:00 UTC
As anyone can obviously see from the ample code you've provided the problem is on line 17. I mean duh. (Hint: How (Not) To Ask A Question) The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.	[reply]
Re: perl script not giving output by haoess (Curate) on Feb 04, 2008 at 05:59 UTC
Please note that some shells on some OS' redirect only some output (namely only STDOUT) when using `>`. Output produced by warn, die et al. is normally not printed to STDOUT, but STDERR. To redirect this output to your logfile (on some shells), you have to `$ ./abcd.pl > file.log 2>&1` -- Frank	[reply] [d/l] [select]
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Re: perl script not giving output by TedPride (Priest) on Feb 04, 2008 at 13:59 UTC
If your Perl script produces the wrong line endings for your OS, you may end up with the appearance of a single line of output when there are in fact many, especially when using the cat command or similar from the command line. I've run into this before.	[reply]
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