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in thread Append to file or create file depending on input filename.

I was wondering the same.

To (ab)use 2-arg open in the way the OP describes, he has to do some trickery like:

C:\>perl script.pl ">outfile" C:\>rem Or C:\>perl script.pl ^>outfile

which will effectively hide the output redirect from the cmd and result in an $ARGV[0] containing >outfile.