Re: Disable output from system

You can dup stdout and stderr, then close them:

sub stfu_system
{
    local (*OUT, *ERR);
    open OUT, ">&STDOUT";
    open ERR, ">&STDERR";
    close STDOUT;
    close STDERR;
    system @_;
    open STDOUT, ">&OUT";
    open STDERR, ">&ERR";
}
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Re^2: Disable output from system by ig (Vicar) on Mar 28, 2009 at 21:15 UTC
This will work for many commands but some will fail if they don't have STDOUT and/or STDERR open.	[reply]
Re^3: Disable output from system by educated_foo (Vicar) on Mar 28, 2009 at 22:30 UTC
True. For those (poorly-written) commands, `s!close\s+(\w+)!open $1, '>/dev/null'!`	[reply] [d/l]