Here's my issue...I need to execute a given system command on a *nix box, that could be literally anything. I need to capture its STDOUT and STDERR (preferably in the same string/variable), along with its return value. And I need to do this without adding any descriptors or modifying the command itself, in any way.

# the usual solution would be to add descriptors to
# redirect STDERR to STDOUT
system("$command 2>&1");

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And since this will be deployed across several servers running different OSes (all *nix based; some Linux, some Solaris, etc), I'd very much prefer a pure perl solution, rather than architecture-dependant XS code. I've looked at IPC::Run, but it has a compiled dependancy in IO::Pty.

Any suggestions? Thanks as always, all.

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In reply to Capturing STDOUT and STDERR of system command, with pure perl? by EvanK

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