#!/usr/bin/perl -w my $text = $ARGV[0]; my $OUTFILE_file_name = $ARGV[1]; # output file name open ( OUTFILE, '>', $OUTFILE_file_name ) or die "$0 : failed to open output file $OUTFILE_file_name : $!\n"; print OUTFILE "THIS IS YOUR INPUT TEXT: $text\n"; close ( OUTFILE ); # close output file