This is another newbie question I'm afraid. 
open(AT_LIST, ">>$at_file") ;  # $at_file defined elsewhere
foreach $bch (@branch_array)  {
AT_LIST = qx'AT, $bch' ;  #One of many variations i've tried
    }
close(AT_LIST);

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As you can see from the above code I'm trying to run the windows command "AT" against several servers from within perl and write the output via filehandle to a text file. I've tried SYSTEM in many variations and can only collect the return code. After rereading (bits of) programming perl I realised I needed qx() but after trying many variations in the syntax can't for the life of me get it to run.

Is there a problem with using a filehandle ? is it plain impossible to do what I want ?
Or, as seems very likely, am I missing something very obvious here ?

Could some enlightened being point me in the right direction ?
Many thanks Alan

In reply to Capturing output with qx() by amarks

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