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in thread Using backquotes to echo results in "Bad file descriptor"

So... when perl is outputing the data using print, it doesn't cause the error, but when it's sending it to a scalar, it isn't really a terminal, so it causes $! to have that error. I can go with that. Makes a lot of sense actually. Thank you!
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