perl - How to store the output of wget into a variable -

with backticks, system call displays wget data screen.

what have information wget "piped" string or array rather screen.

below snippet of code.

sub wgetfunct {     $page = `wget -o - "$wgetval"`;      while ( <input> ) {         #line line operations     } } 

you can run os command (i referring linux only) , capture output/error returned command below:

open (cmdout,"wget some_thing 2>&1 |"); while (my $line = <cmdout>) {     ### each line of hte command output/eror; } 

edit after reading op's comment:

any way not have wget information print stdout?

below code download file without posting screen:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; open (cmdout,"wget ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/jpp/6.0.0/en/source/md5sum 2>&1 |"); while (my $line = <cmdout>) {     ; } 

refer perlipc more information.