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. 
Hey. I'm not completely useless. I can be used as a bad example.

In reply to Re^4: retrieve the value of a system call in a non blocking mode by taint
in thread Do not display the command result in the console (updated) by young_monk_love_perl

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