in reply to how do i redirect STDOUT, STDIN, or STDERR to a FILE?

Try this, worked for me: 
open FILE, ">$file";
select FILE; # print will use FILE instead of STDOUT

print "Hello, world!"; # goes to FILE

select STDOUT; # back to normal

print "Goodbye."; # goes to STDOUT

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