On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 01:07:28PM +0100, LeVA wrote: > Hi! > > From a perl script I call 'tar' with system(). But with every system() > call I get the output from tar to my console: "tar: Removing leading / > from absolute path names in the archive" and it messes up my perl > script's output. I understand why tar is saying this, but I can not use > the -P switch, because I need tar to remove the leading '/'s, and there > is no "quiet" switch to tar. Is there a solution? Can I quiet down tar, > or suppress system()'s output? > > Thanks! > Hi Daniel, Think UNIX! if system() is the equivelant of running a command at the command line, the use redirection. tar .... 2> /dev/null Cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | 'under construction' | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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