note Sidhekin <p> [moritz] gave you half the answer. The one thing remaining, is reopening STDOUT, STDERR with the $SAVEOUT, $SAVEERR. The three-argument [doc://open] covers that: </p> <code> open(STDOUT, '>&', $SAVEOUT) or die ... open(STDERR, '>&', $SAVEERR) or die ... </code> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-106949"> <p align=center> <font size=-1><code>print "Just another Perl ${\(trickster and hacker)},"</code></font> <br>The Sidhekin <b>proves</b> Sidhe did it!</p> </div></div> 639244 639244