Re: Redirect output of the system() command

in reply to Redirect output of the system() command

Just a thought:

Have you tried using backticks (qx//) instead of system? The perldoc entry addresses the problem of redirecting STDOUT and/or STDERR.

HTH,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum

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Re^2: Redirect output of the system() command by Gangabass (Vicar) on Jul 11, 2012 at 05:24 UTC
It's not a `system()` problem so the `qx//` doesn't help too. The called program (`wkhtmltopdf`) just eat all arguments and don't rest anything to the shell.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Redirect output of the system() command by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 11, 2012 at 06:27 UTC
You never invoked a shell because you didn't pass a shell command to `system` You want `system('sh' => ( '-c' => '"$@" >/dev/null 2>&1', '--', $config->{wkhtmltopdf_path}, @options, $source_file, $config->{result_filename}, ));` [download] This approach handles spaces and other special characters in file names and options.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Redirect output of the system() command by Gangabass (Vicar) on Jul 11, 2012 at 07:59 UTC
Same error as before (I'm sure wkhtmltopdf just grab all arguments): `Error: Failed loading page http: (sometimes it will work just to ignore this error with --load-error-handling ignore)`	[reply] [d/l]

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