Script1: { ....do stuff. `script2 a b c`; ... do more stuff } #### Script2: { ....do stuff. print a lot of information about some tables in the database, update them, drop them and so on. ... do more stuff } #### Working on table1: changing A to B: dropping table2: table dropped: #### my $string = `script2 a b c`; print "\n $string \n";