> However, it now appears that the redirection is being done by bash > instead of md4 or dcl.
In my latter example, that is correct. However I think it wrong to require a bash -c wrapper to achieve proper redirection. Perl is a shell, or at least a wannabe shell and should handle redirection internally to be maximally useful. Consider the case of a long command line requiring this redirection. Even with a bash -c wrapper, it can't work because the lib$spawn will overflow trying to call bash.
