I see a couple places you're going wrong. First and foremost, system() returns the exit status of the command, not the commands output. If you want the output of "lin --help", you should run it as qx/$command/. Of course, qx// doesn't pay attention to STDERR, so if you're interested in capturing that, you should re-write the command as $command = "lin --help 2> $test";

2> is the shells way of redirecting STDERR to someplace else.

Try this on for size... 

use strict;
use warnings;
$testCase = "testing";
my $test = "./$testCase.txt";

$command = "lin --help 2> $test";
my $result = `$command`;

print $result;

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Note the use strict; and use warnings; directives. Those are your friend. EDIT: I should probably mention that I used qx// rather than system() because the former will return a program's output, and the latter only returns the return status.

--starX
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