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open (DIR, '>> c:\dir\dir.txt') || die "Can't open file; $!" ;
my $dir = `dir *.pl`;
print DIR $dir;

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Should do the trick for you. $dir gets the whole output of dir (via backticks), print $dir to the outfile.

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Re: Re: Getting the output of a shell command
by ellem (Hermit) on Jun 04, 2001 at 23:24 UTC
    sorry (didn't mean to imply that it didn't)yours worked too.

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    print "\x{263a}"
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