Does anyone know how I can get STDERR back to a variable in my perl
program? I am running a system command in backquotes and need to interogate
STDERR to determine if it has worked or not.

I have tried the following......

@array = `$cmd 2> 1`;

where $cmd is the command I want to run. It appears to partly work. If I
omit the 2> 1 I see the STDERR on my screen and with it I do not see the
error message. In both cases however @array only contains the STDOUT data.

I could always pipe the output of the command to grep and search for the
error text but I was looking for a way to do it in Perl.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.