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Documentation for system explicitly says:

This is not what you want to use to capture the output from a command; for that you should use merely backticks or qx//, as described in "`STRING`" in perlop. Return value of -1 indicates a failure to start the program or an error of the wait(2) system call (inspect $! for the reason).

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Re^6: running command line from Perl
by LanX (Saint) on May 18, 2022 at 15:48 UTC
    It's worth noting that AnoMonk was right, the output of the command bypassed Perl (instead of being printed by Perl) and went via STDOUT directly to the console.

    I've updated the misleading node.

    Cheers Rolf
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    Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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