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in reply to save output of program in another file

print to outfile.txt:

open $MYFILE, '>', "outfile.txt";

print $MYFILE "blah blah blah";      ### don't put "," after $MYFILE
close $MYFILE;

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what do i do in the command line?

i.e. in bash, you make a pipe with ">"

perl thisismygreatperlscript.pl > everythingwasfine-im-the-output.txt 2>somethingwaswrong-im-the-log.log

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