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From: chrise@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Chris Eich)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Starting editor from within perl script
Message-ID: <8310013@hpnmdla.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Sep 90 19:05:26 GMT
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In comp.lang.perl, okamoto@hpcc01.HP.COM (Jeff Okamoto) writes:

    ... I've written a subroutine to capture both the standard
    output and error and return it in a list.

Why not just do `foo 2>&1` or `(complex-shell-stuff) 2>&1`?

Chris