Changeset 24676 for gs2-extensions/pdf-box/trunk/java/perllib/plugins/PDFBoxConverter.pm

Timestamp:

2011-09-27T20:57:36+13:00 (13 years ago)

Author:

ak19

Message:

Output of running basic java command should go to dev/null on linux systems. It was still going to STDOUT on Ubuntu because the order of 2>&1 and /dev/null matters.

File:

• gs2-extensions/pdf-box/trunk/java/perllib/plugins/PDFBoxConverter.pm (modified) (1 diff)

gs2-extensions/pdf-box/trunk/java/perllib/plugins/PDFBoxConverter.pm

@@ -60 +60 @@
     else {
         # test to see if java is in path     
-        my $cmd = "java 2>&1";
+        my $cmd = "java";
         if ($ENV{'GSDLOS'} =~ /^windows/i) {
-        $cmd .= " >nul";
+        $cmd .= " >nul 2>&1"; # java 2>&1 >null or java >null 2>&1 both work (%ERRORLEVEL% is 0)
         }
         else {
-        $cmd .= " >/dev/null &";
+        # On Ubuntu, java >/dev/null 2>&1 works, 
+        # but java 2>&1 >/dev/null doesn't work: output goes to screen anyway
+        $cmd .= " >/dev/null 2>&1";
         }