What you are looking for is a way to do IPC, correct?  If you are wanting to learn the details of how to do IPC (sort of like using LWP vs. WWW::Mechanize), there are two standard modules that will help you do this:  IPC::Open2 and IPC::Open3.  Be forwarned though, these are waters frought with deadlock and race conditions.

Of the two modules mentioned, IPC::Open2 is marginally safer to use (if you don't mind ignoring the other processes STDERR).  Also, the filehandle order is different for each module:
  $pid = open2(\*READ_FH, \*WRITE_FH, "command -args");
  $pid = open3(\*WRITE_FH, \*READ_FH, \*ERR_FH, "command -args");

In reply to Re: open with a command by northwind
in thread open with a command by Tomtom

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