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On Fri Jul 13 01:45:21 2012, PhilEvans wrote:
> This is a bug report for perl from pae9@leicester.ac.uk,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.14.2.
>
> Shell redirects in commands passed through "system()" are not
> working properly. Specifically the bash "&>" operator is being
> interpreted as a "&" (i.e. run in background).
>
> e.g.:
>
> system ("ls &> some_file");
>
> Should give no standard output, but create "some_file". This is what
> happens if the ls is called from a bash shell (and what happened in
> perl
> 15.4.1). But in my Perl install instead "ls &" is executed, i.e. ls
> gets
> called in the background, and some_file is not created.
>
Assuming I understand your post correctly, I cannot reproduce the errant
behavior.
On Darwin/PPC:
#####
$ cd tmp/114120/
[114120] 515 $ touch alpha beta gamma
[114120] 516 $ perl -e 'system(qq{ls &> some_file}) and die "Unable to ls"'
[114120] 517 $ cat some_file
alpha
beta
gamma
some_file
[114120] 518 $ perl -v |head -2 | tail -1
This is perl 5, version 16, subversion 0 (v5.16.0) built for darwin-2level
[114120] 519 $ /usr/local/bin/perl5.14.2 -e 'system(qq{ls &>
some_other_file}) and die "Unable to ls"'
[114120] 520 $ cat some_other_file
alpha
beta
gamma
some_file
some_other_file
#####
Similar results using Perl 5.16.0 and 5.14.0 on Linux/386.
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
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