Ahh, methinx the mists begin to clear a little more (& not before time, I hear you say;-) ... '>' is an argument to the shell, not $command, thus if you need the output redirected in the manner you require, you'll have to use system "@array > $outfile" form - assuming @array contains $command.

Alternatively you could use perl to perform the redirection by using open e.g. 

open CMD, "@array > $outfile" or die "open() failed - $!";

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In both cases, auto-stringifying the array.

A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))

In reply to Re^7: System call doesn't recognise '>' by Bloodnok
in thread System call doesn't recognise '>' by Lauras

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