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Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables?

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Am 28.01.2012 13:03, schrieb crankypuss:
> On 01/27/2012 04:25 AM, M. Strobel wrote:
>> Am 27.01.2012 11:22, schrieb crankypuss:
>>> On 01/25/2012 03:52 PM, Peter H. Coffin wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:47:11 -0700, crankypuss wrote:
>>>>> I'm sure there's a way to do this, probably some simple syntax I've not
>>>>> run into and am too stupid to find in the manual or through google-fu or
>>>>> otherwise.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd like to issue an arbitrary shell command in a subroutine and have it
>>>>> return an array that contains one element representing stdout and
>>>>> another element representing stderr.
>>>>>
>>>>> For example, using tar to deal with a bazillion files, error messages
>>>>> might not be seen when specifying verbose output; I'd like to collect
>>>>> them and display after stdout.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've not found any syntax, yet, for redirecting to a PHP variable rather
>>>>> than some file.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, you have to use the file, then read the file if you want to parse
>>>> back in what went out on stderr.
>>>
>>> Actually no, I do not have to use no steenking files, I might have to start writing
>>> something from scratch in freaking assembler, but I don't have to use no steenking
>>> files to do something that hasn't the least thing to do with files.
>>>
>>> Thank you though, and apologies for any crankiness that has leaked into my post...
>>> I'm going through the transition from many years of Windows to using Linux, and
>>> although I mostly like it, I find the tendency for scripts to rely on command output
>>> run through pipes to be abhorrent since the whole concept of validity checking goes
>>> out the window when you swallow that paradigm, and writing a file when it isn't
>>
>> Can you expand on that? There must be a misunderstanding, the command you run does
>> all validity checking, me thinks.
> 
> Look at any bash script longer than about 4 lines.  You'll find it issuing some
> command and running it through sed or whatever and then through the next stage of the
> pipe and basically *assuming* that command output formats never change and nothing
> can go wrong go wrong.
> 

It just fits. And no magic, only some basic principles.

/Str.

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redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-01-25 12:47 -0700
  Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-01-25 22:42 +0100
  Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-01-25 22:46 +0100
    Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-01-25 15:53 -0700
      Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-01-26 01:33 -0700
        Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-01-26 09:46 +0100
          Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-01-26 02:23 -0700
            Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> - 2012-01-26 14:35 +0100
            Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2012-01-26 07:49 -0600
        Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-01-26 09:00 +0000
          Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-01-26 02:27 -0700
            Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? Erwin Moller <erwinmollerusenet@xs4all.nl> - 2012-01-26 11:43 +0100
              Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-01-26 04:14 -0700
                Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-01-26 13:25 +0100
                Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-01-26 07:11 -0700
                Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? Erwin Moller <erwinmollerusenet@xs4all.nl> - 2012-01-26 16:18 +0100
                Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-01-27 03:11 -0700
  Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-01-25 17:25 -0500
    Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-01-27 03:16 -0700
      Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-01-27 08:49 -0500
        Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? Erwin Moller <erwinmollerusenet@xs4all.nl> - 2012-01-27 16:00 +0100
          Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-01-27 10:12 -0500
            Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2012-01-27 10:37 -0600
              Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-01-30 21:37 -0500
            Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-01-28 05:00 -0700
  Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2012-01-25 16:52 -0600
    Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-01-27 03:22 -0700
      Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-01-27 12:25 +0100
        Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-01-28 05:03 -0700
          Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2012-01-28 11:40 -0600
          Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-01-29 00:40 +0100
  Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? Curtis Dyer <dyer85@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 22:56 +0000
    Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-01-27 03:23 -0700
      Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? Erwin Moller <erwinmollerusenet@xs4all.nl> - 2012-01-27 11:42 +0100
        Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? Curtis Dyer <dyer85@gmail.com> - 2012-01-29 04:56 +0000
  Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? [solved] crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-02-01 05:22 -0700

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