The OP wants the file handle to be restored automatically on scope exit. The linked node does not provide a means of doing so.

In fact, Scope::Finalizer could have been used in that post too. 

use Sub::ScopeFinalizer qw( scope_finalizer );

{
   open(my $old_stdout, '>&', *STDOUT) or die;
   my $sentry = scope_finalizer {
      close(STDOUT);
      open(STDOUT, '>&', $old_stdout) or die;
   };

   close(STDOUT);
   open(STDOUT, '>', $file) or die;

   ...
}

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The only reason I didn't is that "..." is a call to system, and that doesn't die or otherwise exit the block.

Update: I missed it since the point of the linked post was to avoid using local *STDOUT in the circumstances of that thread, but local *STDOUT is a simpler alternative to using select + scope_finalizer: 

{
    local *STDOUT = $OLDFH;
    ...
}

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In reply to Re^3: can the default file handle be localized? by ikegami
in thread can the default file handle be localized? by perl5ever

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