oh no, not a perl question.

[ti@lemonia.org]

> Afternoon
>
> I've got one of those perl questions...
>
> I'm putting together a bunch of scripts that do 'stuff'. This stuff
> involves running
> other scripts and  executables. I need to capture three things from
> the externals
> that I'm running - standard input, standard output and exit status.

Is IO::CaptureOutput any good for you?

(http://search.cpan.org/~simonflk/IO-CaptureOutput-1.03/)

ti'