The argument passing code is right. Are you sure that your program will accept more than one file at a time?

To test your script I used the Unix cat command like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w 
use strict;

my @array = ('test.pl', 'b64.pl');
my @output = `cat @array`;

print @output;
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If your program only accepts one file on the command line then you'll need to do something more like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w 
use strict;

my @array = ('test.pl', 'b64.pl');

my @output;
foreach (@array) {
  push @output, `cat $_`;
}

print @output;
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