use IO::Pty; sub run_in_pty { my @cmd = @_; my $pty = IO::Pty->new(); my $pid = fork; die "Couldn' fork: $!" unless defined $pid; if ($pid) { # parent $pty->close_slave(); } else { # child my $slv = $pty->slave() or die "Couldn't get slave: $!"; close $pty; open STDOUT, ">&".$slv->fileno() or die "Couldn't reopen STDOUT: $!"; open STDERR, ">&".$slv->fileno() or die "Couldn't reopen STDERR: $!"; exec @cmd; die "Couldn't exec(@cmd): $!"; } return join '', (<$pty>); } my $cmd = "./bsub"; my $out = run_in_pty($cmd); print "$cmd: '$out'\n";