Running external command from perl but cannot capture output

Hello, hoping that someone can help me here. What i am doing is running the command

mac "foo.ape" -v
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with perl by doing

@foobar=`mac \"foo.ape\" -v`;
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i know that this would usually suppress the output of the called program and store the output into the variable @foobar, but this is not the case. it does in fact store the output, but it does not suppress it. so instead of a nice clean terminal when running my script i get

--- Monkey's Audio Console Front End (v 3.99) (c) Matthew T. Ashland -
+--
Verifying...
Progress: 7.1% (52.8 seconds remaining, 4.0 seconds total)
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what i am trying to do is not have any of that output and just print a message like foo.ape file is ok or something similar. that is not the important part as i can accomplish that easily. what is important is that i just want that output to stop so that i can replace it. any help would be greatly appreaciated -Syco54645

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Re: Running external command from perl but cannot capture output by m.att (Pilgrim) on Apr 24, 2006 at 22:26 UTC
Is it possible that it's outputting on STDERR as well as STDOUT? You can try redirecting STDERR somewhere else in the command such as: @foobar=`mac \"foo.ape\" -v 2>/dev/null`; Or, if you want to capture STDERR as well: @foobar=`mac \"foo.ape\" -v 2>&1`; m.att	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Running external command from perl but cannot capture output by Syco54645 (Initiate) on Apr 24, 2006 at 22:50 UTC
thanks for the reply. here is what i have right now @test=`mac \"$_\" -v >/dev/null 2>&1`; [download] this suppresses the output, but does not put anything in @test. i am not too sure what to do.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Running external command from perl but cannot capture output by ikegami (Pope) on Apr 24, 2006 at 22:53 UTC
Close @test = `mac \"$_\" -v 2>&1`; [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Running external command from perl but cannot capture output by Errto (Vicar) on Apr 24, 2006 at 22:55 UTC
Leave out the >/dev/null part.	[reply]
Re^4: Running external command from perl but cannot capture output by Syco54645 (Initiate) on Apr 24, 2006 at 23:03 UTC
Re^4: Running external command from perl but cannot capture output by mantadin (Beadle) on Apr 25, 2006 at 05:44 UTC


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