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Or you may use open with pipe, as described in perlipc. That allows you to work with the commands output as with any other (readonly) filehandle.

open(my $cmd, 'getfilesdata file.txt |')

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Re^3: Question using system.
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 10, 2008 at 18:28 UTC
    Better yet: 
    open(my $cmd, '-|', 'getfilesdata', 'file.txt')

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      Perhaps I don't understand IPC as well as I thought I did. ikegami, would you mind explaining why this is supposed to be better? 

      
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        It wasn't required for that particular command, but it avoids the need for shell quoting. 

        # XXX Buggy and susceptible to injection attacks.
open(my $cmd, "getfilesdata $file |")

# Fixed
open(my $cmd, '-|', 'getfilesdata', $file)

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