"Allan Engelhardt" <allane@cybaea.com> wrote in message
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> You'll want to ask on the perl groups, but briefly you get an illegal seek
when your command writes to the error file descriptor:
>
> % perl -e '`echo hi 1>&2` or warn "Oops: $! $?";'
> hi
> Oops: Illegal seek 0 at -e line 1.
>
> It's a perl feature, not a bug ;-) Try
Ahh.
Thanks for that.
