First - please change o/p to output in your title (I assume that's what it stands for) - otherwise you're making people read your entire post to understand the subject.

Second - you are already doing it right, if I understand what you want to do. eg:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
system("echo foo");
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will print foo to the screen.

There are basically three ways to run system commands (there's a lot more, but for now these will do:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $res = system("/sys/command");
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The standard out of the command will be printed to the screen and the perl variable $res is the return value of the command (ie. 0 for successful execution).

The other way is with backticks which are the backwards apostraphes on your keyboard. eg:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $res = `/sys/command`;
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Thi this case, nothing is printed to your screen and the perl variable $res is set to the entire standard out of your command.

The third way is to treat it like a file pipe - this way is best for a lot of output:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $file_handle;
open $file_handle, "/sys/command |" or die "unable to open command as 
+pipe";

while my $line = ( <$file_handle> ) {
     chomp $line; # remove new line
     do_something( $line );
}
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Which way is best depends on what you're trying to achieve.

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