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What's confusing me is,if I run the below command from command prompt I see stderr getting supressed but where as when I run it in perl using backticks it fails,what could be going wrong> 


>p4 where //depot/perl/tools/files/data.c > NUL: 2>&1

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Re^9: How to stop printing the output of a command on screen when the command fails?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 28, 2010 at 22:49 UTC

    Please provide the output of the following: 

    p4 where //depot/perl/tools/files/data.c > NUL: 2>&1
perl -e'system "p4 where //depot/perl/tools/files/data.c > NUL: 2>&1"'
perl -e'`p4 where //depot/perl/tools/files/data.c 2>&1`'

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