Re^2: STDOUT missing on Windows, works on Unix

This is exactly the info I was looking for!! The IO re-direction has plagued us for a long time since we've moved a lot of our unix tools to Windows. It's one of those issues that popped up every once in a while and we never understood why or how to fix it. I passed along the info that, when we're running a perl script that wants to capture the STDOUT of another perl script, to not just use:

my $stdout = `otherscript.pl`;
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but instead to use:

my $stdout = `$^X otherscript.pl`;
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Thank you very much!
Aaron

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Re^3: STDOUT missing on Windows, works on Unix by Bloodnok (Vicar) on Dec 13, 2008 at 12:18 UTC
Hmmm, 'unix tools to Windows' - odd move - I wonder if you'll be moving back once XP goes EOL & you tire of waiting for vista ... to do anything! Just a thought A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))	[reply]