Done in that way, there is no difference: exec will start a shell, just as system does.
What the OP wants is:
- fork, then in the child process:
- open the output file and attach it to STDOUT
- exec with the list of parameters (it will not invoke a shell)
- meanwhile, in the parent process, you can wait for the child to finish
For more info, you can look at "perlipc" and the "fork" entry in "perlfunc"
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