How to read to and write from a pipe in Perl?

You can use IPC::Open3 to achieve bi-directional communication with child.

use strict;
use IPC::Open3;

my $pid = open3(\*CHLD_IN, \*CHLD_OUT, \*CHLD_ERR, 'cat')
    or die "open3() failed $!";

my $r;

for(my $i=1;$i<10;$i++) {
    print CHLD_IN "$i\n";
    $r = <CHLD_OUT>;
    print "Got $r from child\n";
}

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