In Perl, you can open an internal Perl variable with a file handle to read it like a file. Instead of a file name, you use a reference to the internal Perl variable name. You can also use this technique to print to an internal Perl variable. This is often a good technique to avoid the complications of creating temporary files. If the program "bombs", there are no extra files to clean up later. 

open (MP3, '<' , \$mp3file) or die $!;
binmode MP3; #more than one way to do this
print MP3;

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yourprogram.pl > binaryfileconsumer;

In reply to Re: Passing an in memory scalar to an external command as an argument by Marshall
in thread Passing an in memory scalar to an external command as an argument by Rodster001

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