PERL Beginners - suppress system() STDERR and STDOUT (win and unix)

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suppress system() STDERR and STDOUT (win and unix)

Nik J

2007-01-10, 7:00 pm

I have system command I want to run, but I don't want the output
(neither STDERR nor STDOUT) and this perl script is used on windows and
unix.

system("command > /dev/null 2>&1") works on unix, but not on windows.

So is there a way to run "command" and suppress the output? with the
same code being used for windows and unix?

Backticks isn't an option because of the extremely large output from
"command" and I don't want perl doing extra work for no reason.

The current trick I'm using is similar to the above system statement
but I create a tempfile and unlink it after the system command, but
that just seems silly to do.

Thank you,
Perlmedian

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