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From: okamoto@hpcc01.HP.COM (Jeff Okamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Starting editor from within perl script
Message-ID: <1180003@hpcc01.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Oct 90 17:59:32 GMT
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Organization: HP Corp Computing & Services
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chrise@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Chris Eich) reminds me:

>>    ... 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`?

This will indeed work, and I should have thought of it.  At least,
however, the work I had to do to get around this taught me a lot
about fork, wait....
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