Running external command from perl but cannot capture output

[Syco54645]

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

mac "foo.ape" -v

with perl by doing

@foobar=`mac \"foo.ape\" -v`;

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)

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

[m.att]

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

[Syco54645]

thanks for the reply. here is what i have right now

@test=`mac \"$_\" -v >/dev/null 2>&1`;

this suppresses the output, but does not put anything in @test. i am not too sure what to do.

[ikegami]

Close

@test = `mac \"$_\" -v 2>&1`;

[Errto]

Leave out the >/dev/null part.