Re^7: How to stop printing the output of a command on screen when the command fails?

It doesn't matter how many different tools you use to capture STDERR, it won't help you when the program doesn't write the error message you are trying to capture to STDERR. See Re^3: How to stop printing the output of a command on screen when the command fails?.

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Re^8: How to stop printing the output of a command on screen when the command fails? by perl_mystery (Beadle) on Dec 25, 2010 at 01:48 UTC
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` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
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`' [download]	[reply] [d/l]