Hide output from perl script system command

[Jason Clinton]

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brad wrote:
| I am adding a system command to be run inside of an existing perl script
| that is triggered from a web form.  Now that I have added the system
| command (an expect script) the entire send/expect output is displayed on
| the web page.  I cannot have the output go to the web browser so I need
| a way around this.  I no next to zero about perl.  Is there an easy way
| to do this?  Are there security issues having an expect script that logs
| into another server and runs a set of commands on that server be
| triggered from a web form?

I'm no Perl genius but you're probably getting the output because it's
being output to STDOUT. When you exec the command, just have it pipe to
STDERR or /dev/null or read it back in to your program as a string and
REGEX it for usefulness.

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