Re^2: Redirect output of the system() command

[monsoon]

'system' takes a list. @options gives it that list in exactly the order that was specified by 'qw'. Space separated items can be combined into a single string or can be standalone list items. Now how would in this case the positional parameters end up in the wrong place?

[NetWallah]

See Your Mother's comments below.

I wasn't clear in my previous node - what I meant by "wrong place" was that multiple spaces would be collapsed in a quoted string. (or maybe I'm making that up now - can't remember what I was thinking).