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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-01-04 22:56:23 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-01-04 22:56:23 +0000
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A bit of "perl.com" cleanup.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@14083
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@@ -634,9 +634,10 @@ STDOUT).
Note that you I<must> use Bourne shell (sh(1)) redirection syntax in
backticks, not csh(1)! Details on why Perl's system() and backtick
-and pipe opens all use the Bourne shell are in
-http://www.cpan.org/doc/FMTEYEWTK/versus/csh.whynot .
-To capture a command's STDERR and STDOUT together:
+and pipe opens all use the Bourne shell are in the
+F<versus/csh.whynot> article in the "Far More Than You Ever Wanted To
+Know" collection in http://www.cpan.org/olddoc/FMTEYEWTK.tgz . To
+capture a command's STDERR and STDOUT together:
$output = `cmd 2>&1`; # either with backticks
$pid = open(PH, "cmd 2>&1 |"); # or with an open pipe