Re^2: Reset STDERR to console

As you'd know, by default, STDERR points to STDOUT.

Oh really?

$ perl -le 'print STDOUT foo' 1>/dev/null
$ perl -le 'print STDERR foo' 1>/dev/null
foo
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So, not true.

The solution to the original question involves saving the old STDERR in a variable before reopening it. If I remember correctly, perlopentut talks about that.

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Re^3: Reset STDERR to console by anonymized user 468275 (Curate) on Apr 01, 2011 at 11:24 UTC
It would have been accurate to say that the IO handles for STDERR and STDOUT are assigned to the same device rather than that one IO handle is assigned to the other. One world, one people	[reply]
Re^4: Reset STDERR to console by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 01, 2011 at 19:33 UTC
Not really. STDOUT and STDERR default to be the same as the parent's STDOUT and STDERR respectively. There is no relation to devices.	[reply]
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