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in reply to Re: Redirect output of the system() command
in thread Redirect output of the system() command

It's not a system() problem so the qx// doesn't help too. The called program (wkhtmltopdf) just eat all arguments and don't rest anything to the shell.

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Re^3: Redirect output of the system() command
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 11, 2012 at 06:27 UTC

    You never invoked a shell because you didn't pass a shell command to system

    You want 

    system('sh' => (
   '-c' => '"$@" >/dev/null 2>&1',
   '--',
   $config->{wkhtmltopdf_path},
   @options,
   $source_file,
   $config->{result_filename},
));

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    This approach handles spaces and other special characters in file names and options.

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      Same error as before (I'm sure wkhtmltopdf just grab all arguments): Error: Failed loading page http: (sometimes it will work just to ignore this error with --load-error-handling ignore)
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