And obviously if you wanted cmd line arguments just add them to the exe line below.

$pid = open(PROG, "| /path/to/program -a v1 -b v2 ");
print PROG "input to program\n";
close(PROG);
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See IPC::Open2 and IPC::Open3 for reading from STDOUT, STDERR, and writing to STDIN all for the same application.