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Perl: redirecting STDERR to STDOUT

I had occasion that I needed to redirect all STDERR output (die statements) to STDOUT. A webapp I wrote only looks at STDOUT, so this code causes STDERR to merge with STDOUT.

open(STDERR, ">&STDOUT");

Alternately you can also do it by reassigning the raw file handles:

*STDERR = *STDOUT;

You can get fancy and redirect all output to a log file:

open(LOG,">/tmp/foo.log");

*STDERR = *LOG;
*STDOUT = *LOG;
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Beli 2011-07-19 01:55am - public@... - Logged IP: 195.168.38.64

Thank you for the examples. I'd just add that the first alternative: open(STDERR, ">&STDOUT"); affects also the output of executed programs, e.g. with system(), while the second one: STDERR = STDOUT; affects only output generated by your script, not other processes executed from within. Best regards. Beli

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