I want to read both stdout and stderr of a pipe, a la
        open(PIPE, "command args |");
Unfortunately, I can't find anything in any documentation, nor have my
own experiments turned up any way of accomplishing this.

Have I missed something, or is this simply not possible?  What's the
best alternative?  I guess I can dump the output into a temporary file
and read it from there.

Thanks for any help.
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David> I want to read both stdout and stderr of a pipe, a la
David>       open(PIPE, "command args |");
David> Unfortunately, I can't find anything in any documentation, nor have my
David> own experiments turned up any way of accomplishing this.

Just use bourne shell syntax:

        open PIPE, "command args 2>&1 |";

Simple if you know the One True Shell (/bin/sh).  Which everyone should
learn, even if they *are* using Perl.

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