#!/usr/bin/env perl -w use strict; use warnings; use Fcntl; use Tie::File; #-- saving result to output.txt open STDOUT, ">", "output.txt" or die "$0: open: $!"; #-- write to output.txt and print on console print "##Start of SCRIPT.PL##\n"; my $run = "SCRIPT.pl"; system($run); #-- open the file tie my @rows, 'Tie::File', 'output.txt', autochomp => 0 or die "error: $!\n"; #-- print last line of output.txt on console print "$rows[-1]";