Yes, there is a perl way to do it. In fact, I can think of at least two. However, there is also a non-perl WTDI that's a lot easier. perl verbose_output_thing.pl|less. (BTW, that should work on both windows and unix, though windows has strange corner cases where it won't work -- with .bat files, and associations, IIRC.)
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