"Allan Engelhardt" <allane(at)cybaea(dot)com> wrote in message
news:3BC5F048(dot)278EE105(at)cybaea(dot)com(dot)(dot)(dot)
> You'll want to ask on the perl groups, but briefly you get an illegal seek
when your command writes to the error file descriptor:
>
> % perl -e '`echo hi 1>&2` or warn "Oops: $! $?";'
> hi
> Oops: Illegal seek 0 at -e line 1.
>
> It's a perl feature, not a bug ;-) Try
Ahh.
Thanks for that.