In addition to @Stéphane Chazelas's answer@Stéphane Chazelas's answer, we don't have to worry about this issue if we use -i command line option:
$ perl -pe '' 'uname|'
Linux
$ perl -i -pe '' 'uname|'
Can't open uname|: No such file or directory.
Because when using -i option, perl used stat to check the file status before process it:
$ strace -fe trace=stat perl -pe '' 'uname|'
stat("/home/cuonglm/perl5/lib/perl5/5.20.1/x86_64-linux", 0x7fffd44dff90) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/cuonglm/perl5/lib/perl5/5.20.1", 0x7fffd44dff90) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/cuonglm/perl5/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
Process 6106 attached
Linux
Process 6105 suspended
Process 6105 resumed
Process 6106 detached
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
$ strace -fe trace=stat perl -i -pe '' 'uname|'
stat("/home/cuonglm/perl5/lib/perl5/5.20.1/x86_64-linux", 0x7fffdbaf2e50) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/cuonglm/perl5/lib/perl5/5.20.1", 0x7fffdbaf2e50) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/cuonglm/perl5/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat("uname|", 0x785f40) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
Can't open uname|: No such file or directory.
