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Well, I believe this is not entirely true. You might capture the stuff if you fiddled with STDOUT and STDERR enough, but it would not be nice. And it's totally unnecessary. So I think the precise answer is "You could, but it would not be pretty so you should not. Use the tools that were designed to do that!"

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Re^5: storing system function output
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 15, 2010 at 16:34 UTC

    But that wouldn't, specifically, be using the system function. It would be using "the system function plus a lot of other stuff". Otherwise known as backticks or qx//, which had already been specifically rejected.

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