in reply to Correct way to capture command output to a file in Perl.

Have you looked at Capture::Tiny? ...a third way, but it works great.

From the synopsis:

   use Capture::Tiny ':all';
 
   # capture from external command
 
   ($stdout, $stderr, $exit) = capture {
     system( $cmd, @args );
   };

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Dave

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