#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my $ok = 1;
$SIG{PIPE} = sub { undef $ok };
open (PIPE,"| yourFile.txt") or die "Can't open pipe: $!";
select PIPE;
$|=1;
select STDOUT;
my $count = 0;
for ($_=1; $ok && $_ <= 10; $_++) {
warn "Writing line $_\n";
print PIPE "This is line number $_\n" and $count++;
sleep 1;
}
close PIPE or die "Can't close pipe: $!";
print "Wrote $count lines of text\n";
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