Perl, redirect stdout to file

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Published on 2010-05-25T18:56:17Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 19:01 UTC
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I'm looking for an example of redirecting stdout to a file using Perl. I'm doing a fairly straightforward fork/exec tool, and I want to redirect the child's output to a file instead of the parents stdout.

Is there an equivilant of dup2() I should use? I can't seem to find it

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