in reply to Capturing STDOUT and STDERR of system command, with pure perl?

For simple stuff, I've been very happy with IO::CaptureOutput. I use it extensively in testing CPAN::Reporter. 

use IO::CaptureOutput qw/capture/;

my ($stdout, $stderr);

capture sub {
  system($command);
} => \$stdout, \$stderr;

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There is also a capture_exec command, but it does some sort of shell escaping which you may not want.

-xdg

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