Yes, I can assure you there's many OSes out there not executing my script :-/ - one thing I forgot was that a system can have more than one Perl interpreter...

As for abstracting out the code, I guess it's possible, if I also changed all my print statements to accumulate the output instead, but I think it would be warping it too much. The module's experimental, after all - I need to think about what it should be doing before testing that it does...