in reply to Re^5: running command line from Perl
in thread running command line from Perl

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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