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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting /dev/null Post 302207702 by matrixmadhan on Friday 20th of June 2008 02:12:31 PM
Old 06-20-2008
Not really

I would say its a good practice to redirect STDOUT and STDERR to a log file. When something is not working you have logs to check that.
 

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Test::Output::Tie(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    Test::Output::Tie(3pm)

NAME
Test::Output::Tie - module used by Test::Output to tie STDERR and STDOUT DESCRIPTION
You are probably more interested in reading Test::Output. This module is used to tie STDOUT and STDERR in Test::Output. Methods TIEHANDLE The constructor for the class. PRINT This method is called each time STDERR or STDOUT are printed to. PRINTF This method is called each time STDERR or STDOUT are printed to with "printf". FILENO BINMODE read This function is used to return all output printed to STDOUT or STDERR. AUTHOR
Currently maintained by brian d foy, "bdfoy@cpan.org". Shawn Sorichetti, "<ssoriche@cpan.org>" SOURCE AVAILABILITY
This module is in Github: http://github.com/briandfoy/test-output/tree/master COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE Currently maintained by brian d foy, "bdfoy@cpan.org". Copyright 2005-2008 Shawn Sorichetti, All Rights Reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This code was taken from Test::Simple's TieOut.pm maintained Michael G Schwern. TieOut.pm was originally written by chromatic. Thanks for the idea and use of the code. perl v5.10.1 2011-04-22 Test::Output::Tie(3pm)
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