This statement does what you're describing:

`evince bill.pdf >> /home/administrator/temp_1`;
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Although, I'm not sure that you've really described what you want to do. For instance, what is $rc for?

In any event, you should take a look at the documentation for the open function. Your code indicates that you don't really understand how this works: the first argument is a filehandle not the filename; the filename (possibly as a full pathname) goes where you have the administrator's home directory. You're likely to break something with code like this!

`evince bill.pdf >> /home/administrator/temp_1`;

Using backticks here doesn't make sense, because due to the redirection, no output would be returned anyway. A better solution would be either

system('evince bill.pdf >> /home/administrator/temp_1');
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or

my $errmsg=`evince bill.pdf 2>&1 >> /home/administrator/temp_1`;
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Another alternative to consider is IPC::Run. This would spawn the command without the need of an auxiliary shell process.
-- 
Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>

Using backticks here doesn't make sense, because due to the redirection, no output would be returned anyway.

I disagree. AM said that he wanted the output redirected: "I want to redirect the output of a terminal cmd on linux to a output file .". I wasn't about to make guesses based on his code. I did, however, point out issues with the code and queried his use of $rc.

-- Ken

It gives me this error when it try to run the above command -->Cannot parse arguments: Cannot open display:

I hadn't come across evince before but find I have it on my system (Mac OS X):

$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -E '`evince --help >> fred`;'

$ cat fred
Usage:
  evince [OPTION...] [FILE…] GNOME Document Viewer
...
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As you can see, I successfully redirected the output of the command to an output file. This is what you asked for (which I queried).

Given that I now know that this launches a document viewer, I'm wondering exactly what sort of output you're hoping to redirect to a file.

I probably can't be much help with the error you're getting except to suggest checking that your X Server is running correctly and $ENV{DISPLAY} has an appropriate value.

-- Ken