From: Gavin Kistner <gavin.kistner@...>
Date: 2006-10-27T08:25:45+09:00
Subject: Re: backtick commands and stderr

From: Alexandru Popescu [mailto:the.mindstorm.mailinglist@gmail.com] 
> When executing a system op using the backtick method, the standard
> output is caught and returned in the assigned variable:
>
> output= `ls -Al`
>
> I am wondering what happens with the standard error output?

I believe you want to look at open3 or open4