backticks spits out error, but I want to handle errors! *shakes fist*

dark314 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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I'm going to go with greenFox's response, because thats definately what I'm looking for, although the other responses were not wrong! thanks.

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I want to handle any errors that find comes accross, instead it spitting to standard out. Is there some way to do this? Im sure there is, here is my attempt which failed. Thanks!

    foreach $spamuser (@users) {


        my $CUR_INBOX = "$MAIL_ROOT/$spamuser/cur";

        @ham = `find $CUR_INBOX -type f` or warn "Error!\n";
}
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Re: backticks spits out error, but I want to handle errors! shakes fist by andyford (Curate) on Aug 16, 2006 at 23:43 UTC
Well if you want real control, try File::Find module. It's been included with Perl for, well, somebody help me out here... andyford or Andy Ford	[reply]
Re^2: backticks spits out error, but I want to handle errors! shakes fist by tinita (Parson) on Aug 17, 2006 at 10:17 UTC
i never wanna live without corelist again: `$ corelist File::Find File::Find was first released with perl 5` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: backticks spits out error, but I want to handle errors! shakes fist by diotalevi (Canon) on Aug 16, 2006 at 23:45 UTC
Use IPC::Open3. `use IPC::Open3 'open3'; $SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE'; # see perlipc for the scoop open3( undef, my $ham_fh, my $ham_err_fh, 'find', $CUR_INBOX, '-type', 'f' ); <$ham_err_fh> or warn "Error!\n"; @ham = <$ham_fh>;` [download] ⠤⠤ ⠙⠊⠕⠞⠁⠇⠑⠧⠊	[reply] [d/l]
Re: backticks spits out error, but I want to handle errors! shakes fist by greenFox (Vicar) on Aug 17, 2006 at 03:26 UTC
Check $? (perlvar). Something like: foreach $spamuser (@users) { my $CUR_INBOX = "$MAIL_ROOT/$spamuser/cur"; @ham = `find $CUR_INBOX -type f 2>&1`; $? and die "@ham $!"; } [download] -- Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. -Basho	[reply] [d/l]
Re: backticks spits out error, but I want to handle errors! shakes fist by rodion (Chaplain) on Aug 16, 2006 at 23:28 UTC
Try re-routing STDERR to STDOUT within the backtick command. You will then have to pick it out of the output. Another way is to pipe STDERR to a file, then look to see if the file is empty, and retrieve the contents of it if it isn't.	[reply]
Re: backticks spits out error, but I want to handle errors! shakes fist by Anonymous Monk on Aug 17, 2006 at 02:03 UTC
Lots of handy modules for this exist in the Proc namespace on CPAN: Proc::Short Proc::Simple Proc::Reliable Proc::SafePipe	[reply]


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