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That's why I normally code a wrapper around system calls.
Like this? 
sub backticks {
    `$_[0]`;
}

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Re^6: capturing command output
by pklausner (Scribe) on Jan 26, 2012 at 16:21 UTC
    Almost. Although your backticks is a bit short on the logging and redirection part ;-)
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      It's using the same logging as the OP did (that is, none). And I fail to see why backtick "$cmd 2>&1", using the same $cmd from the OP doesn't give you redirection.
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        Although the original does no logging, I dared to propose that this might be useful for non-trivial calls. As might be a redirection duplication of stderr and/or stdout to some location where you can inspect it. Or show it depending on a verbosity option.
        And yes, all of this is unnecessary in perfect code.

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