From a perltray application, I need to execute (and use the STDOUT output from) `netstat -e` every 15 minutes. With simple backticks, an annoying cmd window pops up every time it executes(sometimes stealing keystrokes meant for other windows during that moment). "open3" seems to prevent the perltray application from starting at all. Win32::Process can create a separate (and I understand, minimized) process, but I'm not sure how to capture STDOUT from the netstat (can you specify to Windows that it is a console application? or can you capture the filehandles with Win32::Process?) Or is there some other way to get the output of `netstat -e` without that cmd window popping up momentarily? Thanks in advance for any assistance, -- John

In reply to Backticks with no cmd window from perltray by Anonymous Monk

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