Question

I would like to send the output from a command to both STDOUT and to a variable. I want to combine:

my $var = `some command` ;    system( 'some command' ) ; 

Tee is a step in the right direction but this sends it to a file rather than to a variable. I guess I could then read the file but it would be simpler to get it straight there.

Answer 1

You want Capture::Tiny

use Capture::Tiny 'tee'; my $output = tee { system( 'some command' ) }; 

I wrote it to replace Tee and about 20 other modules that do some sort of capturing but are flawed in one way or another.

— xdg (aka dagolden)