Are you wanting to open up an xterm window to run this? If so, try the following:

use strict;
use warnings;
my $title = 'xterm example';
my $msg = 'press any key to continue ...';
my $exec = 'ls';
my $cmd = qq{xterm -T "$title" -e "$exec && read -p '$msg' -n1"};
my $rc = qx{$cmd};
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