in reply to How to hide the command prompt open duing the execution of system command?

another way to prevent the cmd window from popping up is: 
BEGIN {
    Win32::SetChildShowWindow(0) if defined &Win32::SetChildShowWindow
+;
}

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(source: perl windows system commandline opens which results in http://community.activestate.com/os/windows?page=11)
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