perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -E ' my $cmd = q{ping -c 5 www.perlmonks.org}; my $file = q{./pm_1031633.out}; open my $ping_pipe, "-|", $cmd or die "Pipe from $cmd failed: $!"; open my $out_fh, ">", $file or die "Write to $file failed: $!"; while (<$ping_pipe>) { print { $out_fh } $_; } '