I am trying to redirect the output and error to a file in Unix through a Perl script.
The command is running fine in Unix, but while running the Perl script it is throwing the error sh: & is unexpected. I tried using escape character also
Command:
`ls -lrt $myfile >>& $output`
Also used Command:
`ls -lrt $myfile >> $output 2>&1` - got ambiguous output redirect error
Backticks use /bin/sh. You're trying to redirect STDOUT and STDERR? The syntax is:
>$output 2>&1
You also need to convert your file names to shell literals. They might contain spaces, for example, or worse.
use String::ShellQuote qw( shell_quote );
my $cmd = shell_quote('ls', '-lrt', $myfile);
$cmd .= '>'.shell_quote($output).' 2>&1';
`$cmd`
/bin/sh is not /bin/csh.bash and csh??? The question is about backticks in Perl, and it uses /bin/sh. I really don't care what results in you got in csh or bash. Stop saying the solution gives an error when you haven't even tried it yet.Try this and make sure myfile and output have values
$myfile='src';
$output='myoutput';
`ls -lrt $myfile >> $output 2>&1`;
