in reply to Re: Redirect output of the system() command
in thread Redirect output of the system() command

Thank you for the hint with bash -c!

I have fixed issues with this (really ugly) code:

my @options = qw( --orientation Landscape --load-error-handling ignore --page-size A3 --quiet ); $config->{wkhtmltopdf_path} =~ s{ }{\\ }g; $config->{result_filename} =~ s{ }{\\ }g; my $command = "(" . join(" ", $config->{wkhtmltopdf_path}, @options, $ +source_file, $config->{result_filename}) . ")"; system( "/bin/bash -c \"$command\" >/dev/null 2>&1" );

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Re^3: Redirect output of the system() command
by Gangabass (Vicar) on Jul 11, 2012 at 08:21 UTC
    A bit modified version (as soon as I need to quote some options too):
    my @options = qw( --orientation Portrait --page-size A4 --title "Rechnung" --footer-right "created by Manager www.somesite.ch" ); $config->{wkhtmltopdf_path} =~ s{ }{\\ }g; $source_file =~ s{ }{\\ }g; $config->{result_filename} =~ s{ }{\\ }g; my $command = "(" . join(" ", $config->{wkhtmltopdf_path}, @options, $ +source_file, $config->{result_filename}) . ")"; $command =~ s/\"/\\\"/g; system( "/bin/bash -c \"$command\" >/dev/null 2>&1" );