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I'm looking for an example of redirecting stdout to a file using Perl. I'm doing a fairly straightforward fork/exec tool, and I want to redirect the child's output to a file instead of the parents stdout.
Is there an equivilant of dup2() I should use? I can't seem to find it
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Redirect STDOUT using a filehandle As with select, this will have a global affect on the Perl program. use feature qw/say/; use autodie; # copy STDOUT to another filehandle open (my $STDOLD, '>&', STDOUT); # redirect STDOUT to log. txt open (STDOUT, '>>', 'log. txt'); say 'This should be logged.
Redirecting stdout and stderr to a file: The I/O streams can be redirected by putting the n> operator in use, where n is the file descriptor number. For redirecting stdout, we use “1>” and for stderr, “2>” is added as an operator.
The regular output is sent to Standard Out (STDOUT) and the error messages are sent to Standard Error (STDERR). When you redirect console output using the > symbol, you are only redirecting STDOUT. In order to redirect STDERR, you have to specify 2> for the redirection symbol.
From perldoc -f open:
open STDOUT, '>', "foo.out"
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