It seems you were trying to use system safely by avoiding the shell by using it's multi-argument form, then abandoned your efforts and introducing other errors in the process. Solutions:

• # Not portable to Windows
  sub shell_quote {
      my ($arg) = @_;
      $arg =~ s/'/'\\''/g;
      $arg = "'$arg'";
      return $arg;
  }
  
  my $cmd = join ' ', map shell_quote($_), @CreateList;
  system("$cmd > data/test.txt") and die;
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• open(my $fh_out, '>', 'data/test.txt') or die;
  open(my $pipe, '|-', @CreateList) or die;
  print $fh_out $_ while <$pipe>;
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• use IPC::Open2 qw( open2 );
  open(my $fh_out, '>', 'data/test.txt') or die;
  my $pid = open2('>&'.fileno($fh_out), '<&STDIN', @CreateList);
  waitpid($pid, 0);
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