Hello, I know this is not the Anyperl discussion, but due to mailbox limits I can only subscribe to this one... I am writing a small Perl app on a Linux system, and would like to call some command (smssend in this case). This returns some data, which is normally outputted to the terminal, and which I would like to read. This is the line is the script : `smssend $provider $login $passw $phone $msg`; As you can see I am using backticks to get the command called, and that works without problems, but doesn't return anything... Is there a way to get it return its output ? Or should I do it some other way ? Thanks, Thomas De Groote