Re: Writing the output of test::more in to another file

[arkturuz]

The simplest way would be to redirect STDERR to STDOUT in BEGIN block:

BEGIN {
    *STDERR = *STDOUT;
}

Now, you can redirect to some file with no problems:

test.pl > results.txt

Or you can invoke your program like:

perl test.pl > foo.txt 2>&1

It does the same thing (if you're on Unix-like OS).

[Kashratul]

thanks that worked.

In 'perl test.pl > foo.txt 2>&1'

What "2>&1" is for? thanks

[arkturuz]

You can read more about that in Bash Guide for Beginners, chapter 9. Here's a quote from that document that explains "1" and "2": Each open file gets assigned a file descriptor. The file descriptors for stdin, stdout, and stderr are 0, 1, and 2, respectively.

So "2>&1" means: redirect stderr to stdout. See more examples in the guide.