in reply to backticks are echoing stderr

Hi ,

For a slightly more complicated, but platform agnostic (I do like that expression - thanx again bart) solution, why not try...

find({wanted => \&viewscan,follow}, $view); sub viewscan { open CMD, "cleartool ls -l $fname 2>&1 |", or die(...); my @fileinfo = <CMD>; close CMD; @fileinfo = grep /view private/, @fileinfo; }
or maybe, at a push ...
find({wanted => \&viewscan,follow}, $view); sub viewscan { open CMD, "cleartool ls -l $fname 2>&1 |", or die(...); my @fileinfo = grep /view private/, (<CMD>); close CMD; }

HTH ,

A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))