use warnings; use strict; use IO::Capture::Stdout; my $capture = IO::Capture::Stdout->new(); my $date = '31Jul200'; my $logfile = "d:\\log\\$date.log"; my $elogfile = "d:\\log\\exported\\$date.elog"; $capture->start(); my $cmd = `fw logexport -i $logfile -o $elogfile -r 1000 -n`; $capture->stop(); my $line = $capture->read; print "$line";