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If you don't want to capture whatever xdg-open returns, I would recommend switching to system:<br />

<pre><code id="code-20-39033028-1">system(&quot;xdg-open '$path2Report'&quot;) == 0 or die &quot;call to xdg-open failed: $?&quot;;</code></pre>
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Hi Wilcoxon,<br />
I tried it but it didn't work. <br />
<br />
How can I suppress this error in a different way?<br />
<br />
Thanks,
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I used this instead and it works now:<br />
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`xdg-open &quot;$path2Report&quot; &gt;&nbsp;/dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1`;
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Hi,<br />
I use xgd-open to open a web page in Perl in Unix platform.<br />
<br />
It works fine but I see the following message on the shell where I run my Perl code:<br />
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<pre><code id="code-10-28081176-1">&lt;unknown program name&gt;(14582)/ ClientApp::doIt: Creating ClientApp
kioclient(14582) ClientApp::kde_open: KUrl(&quot;/path/to/the/file.html&quot;)</code></pre>
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This is how I run this command in Perl:<br />
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<pre><code id="code-10-28081176-2">`xdg-open &quot;$path2Report&quot;`;</code></pre>
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Hi,
I use xgd-open to open a web page in Perl in Unix platform.

It works fine but I see the following message on the shell where I run my Perl code:

(CODE)


This is how I run this command in Perl:

(CODE)

If you don&#39;t want to capture whatever xdg-open returns, I would recommend switching to system:
(CODE)

Hi Wilcoxon,
I tried it but it didn&#39;t work. 

How can I suppress this error in a different way?

Thanks,

I used this instead and it works now:

`xdg-open &quot;$path2Report&quot; &gt; /dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1`;

Why doesn&#39;t xdg-open work in Perl on Unix without issues?

Why doesn't xdg-open work in Perl on Unix without issues?

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages with over 25 years of development. Perl 5 runs on over 100 platforms from portables to mainframes and is suitable for both rapid prototyping and large-scale development projects.  Perl gained widespread popularity as a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripting language, in part due to its regular expression and string parsing abilities. In addition to CGI, Perl is used for graphics programming, system administration, network programming, finance, bioinformatics, and other applications.

Perl

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. Today, it is a modern OS with many commercial flavors and licensees, including FreeBSD, Hewlett-Packard’s UX, IBM AIX and Apple Mac OS-X. Apart from its command-line interface, most UNIX variations support the standardized X Window System for GUIs, with the exception of the Mac OS, which uses a proprietary system.