my $secs = 5; my $url = 'http://foo.com/bar.html'; print qq{\n}; #### print qq{\n\n}; #### #!/usr/bin/perl package Foo; open MYOUT, ">&STDOUT" or die "Can't dup STDOUT: $!\n"; sub say { print MYOUT "@_\n"} package main; open STDOUT, '>', "/dev/null" or die "open: $!\n"; print "nope"; Foo->say("oops"); __END__ Foo oops