D'OH! Had a bit of a HOMER moment there. :P

What I should have put above was

system("echo test > myfile.txt" or die $!);
system("cat myfile.txt" or die $!);
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NOTE: the misplaced paren in my earlier post.
sorry 'bout that.

--Chris

UPDATE: I should probably mention, that it might be more elegant to test the existence of the file myfile.txt before cattting it, rather than dieing. If interested. I'd post an example.