Check out IPC::Run for Perl. [0] Perl was already pretty nice with it's backticks but IPC::Run takes it another step further and allows you to do all sorts of r

Check out IPC::Run for Perl. [0] Perl was already pretty nice with it's backticks but IPC::Run takes it another step further and allows you to do all sorts of redirection/piping/etc with the single 'run' subroutine. If you want an 'expect' sort of use, you can do that too. [0]: http://search.cpan.org/~toddr/IPC-Run-0.92/lib/IPC/Run.pm http://search.cpan.org/~toddr/IPC-Run-0.92/lib/IPC/Run.pm