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Old 11-24-2011, 11:41 AM   #1
totaluser
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Perl: redirect STDERR from system() call to /dev/null


Hello everybody,
I am doing some finishing touches to my perl script that is used to telnet into devices and issue some commands.

the problem is that after cold boot some of my devices create slightly different output than after issuing the commands one more time (this is due to different version of system running and I cannot change because they don't have enough resources to run the newer version (that runs on most of my devices and produces output that works fine with my script))

so what I want to do is to run my perl script and redirect all the STDOUT and STDERR to /dev/null and then run my script for the 2nd time and this time it produces valid results and I want to see all the STDOUT and possible STDERR

since the script is the same I would like to perform it via redirection and via modification of my script or having 2 scripts



I cannot fully disclose of that script but it is not necessary I think

in my script I use some "native perl commands" as well as using system() call to execute external shell scripts

when executing the script like this
Code:
perl ./my_script.pl > /dev/null 2 > /dev/null
I achieve redirection of STDOUT and STDERR to /dev/null but only for "native perl commands"


error messages from system() calls are still shown
is there a way of redirecting STDERR from system() as well?

the commands executed using system() are grep and another shell script


any advices are appreciated.
thank you very much in advance


//edit:
actually I only want to suppress STDERR from another shell script (that shell script is calling grep)
any ideas?

edit:
//I tried to simulate the issue on my local Linux host (unfortunately I cannot verify it with those devices)
instead of calling it like this ()
Code:
perl ./my_script.pl > /dev/null 2 > /dev/null
I tried calling my local sample like this
Code:
perl ./my_script.pl > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
and now it does not print anything to STDERR

was it that single space in 2 > /dev/null that ruined my attempts to succeed?
I will try it tomorrow but if anybody more experienced could tell me if that new redirection will discard any STDOUT and STDERR messages that my perl script produces

thanks in advance

Last edited by totaluser; 11-24-2011 at 01:34 PM. Reason: I reviewed my script and I was not accurate enough
 
Old 11-24-2011, 08:13 PM   #2
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Really need to see how you are calling the other cmds from within Perl in order to help.
If those parts of the Perl prog contain any passwds etc, just replace with 'XXX' when you show us it.
Just need the code around the external calls really.
 
Old 11-25-2011, 02:30 AM   #3
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Hi

the code looks like this

Code:
some for loop here using only perl commands

system("bash", "./script.sh") == 0 or die "error ###" ;

some other perl commands that don't get executed when script dies
I just tested it today
calling it like this
Code:
perl ./my_script.pl 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
achieves exactly what I wanted, no output to STDOUT or STDERR from either my perl script or external commands that my script is calling

It was that space in 2 > /dev/null that caused it not to work
 
  


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