my $all=get_response("/full/path/to/copyorders_multiple.pl", "refID=".&trim($license)); my ($data)=$all=~/\n\n(.*)$/s; sub get_response { my ($cgi, $CMD) = shift; ## prepare proper (CGI) environment $ENV{QUERY_STRING} = $CMD; $ENV{REQUEST_METHOD} = 'GET'; $ENV{GATEWAY_INTERFACE} = 'CGI/1.1'; # add more as needed open(CGI, "$cgi |") or die "Can't exec $cgi, $!"; local $/ = undef; my $res = ; close(CGI) or die "Error running $cgi, $!"; return $res; }