According to my man page for console_codes, it's trying to set your window title to saturnn2 and ringing the system bell. Probably your shell is being a little too "full featured." You could try to force a particular shell to handle it, something like:

system ('/bin/sh', '-c', "tar -cvf - $tar_star_list.* | gzip > $complete_zip_spec &");

Note that by using system in list context, you avoid using whatever shell Perl usually uses. Then you can find the right set of arguments to your shell of choice that will produce the desired output.

Of course, you could do all the forking and piping and redirection in pure Perl, but that may be more coding than you want to get into.

print pack("A25",pack("V*",map{1919242272+$_}(34481450,-49737472,6228,0,-285028276,6979,-1380265972)))

In reply to Re: system function adds spurious characters to log file by bv
in thread system function adds spurious characters to log file by Anonymous Monk

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