Re: [coders] Silencing STDERR in Perl

[Ken Foskey <foskey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 09:48 +1100, Carlo Sogono wrote:
> I've got a script that uses a module which dies and shouts at stderr 
> during an error. I can catch these errors nicely with eval but I want to 
> do something about what it spews at at stderr...basically print my own 
> customised error. Editing the Perl module would be a quick fix but I'd 
> rather not do that as I'll be deploying this code on different machines.
> 
> So, is there any way to silence stderr from within a perl script (no 
> shell redirections to /dev/null please)?

look up system2 in cpan.   Looks interesting.