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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: how to read stdout AND stderr from a program
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Date: 2 Mar 90 01:21:05 GMT
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Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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In article <7001@pitt.UUCP> al@ee.pitt.edu (Alan Martello) writes:
: Related to my previous posting concerning dumps, I want
: to do open(FH, "program |&")  --- but this doesn't work.
: Is there an easy way to accomplish the same thing?
: (I tried "program |& cat |") but to no avail....

That's csh syntax, and perl mostly only invokes sh (except for globbing).  Say

	open(FH, "program 2>&1 |")

That says fd 2 is a duplicate of fd 1.

Larry