RE: Read CVS check in result.

[Jim.Hyslop]

address@hidden wrote:
> All my cvs check in file activity is done by perl script.
> Unfortunately, I am not able to read the cvs output if there is commit
> failure or other failures.  For example:
> 
> $result = `cvs -d /cvs_data -m"Update file" abc/alc.c`;
> 
> If the above cvs command fails to commit, I want to all cvs output
> result to be stored in temporarily $result. Can I do that? If not, how
> can I get the output result. I need the output result to do some
> operations.
CVS sends errors to stderr, and normal output to stdout. $result will hold
the output of stdout. Check your PERL reference to figure out how to capture
the output of stderr.

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Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com)
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts)