Redirect resultof odcmd to a file

Hi,
I am executing odcmd to run an OD deployment file.
my $deploy_cmd = "$OD_DIR/bin/iwodcmd start opendeploy -inst $taskid";
my $resultsfile= "$iwhome/tmp/results.$wfid";
my $results = `$deploy_cmd > $resultsfile`;

i want to rediect the output to result file ,the file is getting created but it is blank also the OD is able to deploy the files successfully.
Let me know why is this not working or if there is any other way

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garima

opendeploy.xml is the name of my OD deployment file

Adam Stoller

Hi,
I am executing odcmd to run an OD deployment file.
my $deploy_cmd = "$OD_DIR/bin/iwodcmd start opendeploy -inst $taskid";
my $resultsfile= "$iwhome/tmp/results.$wfid";
my $results = `$deploy_cmd > $resultsfile`;

i want to rediect the output to result file ,the file is getting created but it is blank also the OD is able to deploy the files successfully.
Let me know why is this not working or if there is any other way

You may need to redirect both STDOUT and STDERR - with something like:

qx($deploy_cmd > $resultsfile 2>&1);

or perhaps:

my $status = system("$deploy_cmd > $resultsfile 2>&1");

(I'm pretty sure the redirection of STDERR happens after the arguments, if not you could try something like:

qx($deploy_cmd 2>&1 > $resultsfile);

.

The code you show above defines $results - but if you're redirecting the output of the command $results will probably never get set to anything.

The other alternative is to redirect STDERR to STDOUT and store all that information in $results (no redirection to a file) and then use the contents of $results as you wish:

my $results = qx($deploy_cmd 2>&1);

garima

Thanx a lot, ghoti it worked