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You can use IPC::System::Simple to do what you want:
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use IPC::System::Simple qw(capture);

my $results = capture('gunzip -cf /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CGI.pm');
print $results;

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The capture method replaces the backticks.

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Re^2: Executing / Retrieving Output from Command
by rpike (Scribe) on Mar 16, 2010 at 13:13 UTC
    I'm using Activestate version of Perl and download modules using ppm. When I try loading that module it gives me an error back, 403 forbidden error. Is there another approach to take to accomplish the same thing? Thanks for the message.
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