[Chicago-talk] How to subvert error message.

[Jess Balint]

Richard,

Yet another way is to dup the stderr onto a new fd and then run your
command. You can restore it afterwards. The following example dups stderr
onto olderr, then opens stderr onto /dev/null. The command "ls /xxx" is run
and no error output is displayed. The stderr fd is then restored by duping
olderr back onto stderr and the command "ls /yyy" is run with the error
output visible. (It's not the coolest one-liner ;)

perl -e'open(OLDERR, ">&STDERR");open(STDERR, ">/dev/null");system("ls
/xxx");close(STDERR);open(STDERR, ">&OLDERR");system("ls /yyy");'

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Hello All,

Is there a way to execute a system command with out the console printing an
error message?  I wan't to do system("play soundfile.wav") but I do not want
the error message to print out if the file cannot be played.  

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Richard


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