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Subject: Re: Capturing output > doesn't work
From: Ahbaid Gaffoor <ahbaidg@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 18:29:21 -0700


Wes Owen wrote:

> I am trying to capture the output of:
>
> perl -w frank > text.file
> Can't open perl script "frank": No such file or directory
> less text.file
>
> and text.file is empty.  Instead of "Can't open perl script "frank": No
> such file or directory" going to the file, it is outputted to the
> screen.  Is there any way to capture the output of perl -w?  I am doing
> this though a bash cgi script, so what prints to the screen doesn't always
> show up on the web.
>
> Thanks for any/all help.

Try:

script
perl -w frank
exit
vi typescript

or

perl -w frank 1>output.good 2>output.errors


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