Hello, I am fairly new to Perl and Perl/Tk. I am running a linux system with Blackbox as my windows manager. Bbrun will not compile on this system since that was made for a RedHat 6.2. So I am attempting to make a gui run command prompt. I have run into a problem of how to send the command to the system to be executed. Perhaps someone could help me. Below is the code. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Tk;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use strict;

my $text;
my $mw = MainWindow->new;

$mw->title("PerlRun");

$text = $mw->Text(-height => 1, -width => 15)->pack(-anchor => 'nw',
            -side => 'top');

$mw->Button(-text => " Run ",
    -command => [ \&runprog ])
    ->pack(-side => 'left',
    -anchor => 'sw');
$mw->Button(-text => "Done",
    -command => sub { exit })
    ->pack(-side => 'left',
    -anchor => 'sw');

sub runprog {
    system "\$text";
    exit;
    }

MainLoop;

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