This means that, whatever the child process does will the output for the parent process and it will be stored in the FILE (file handle).
open(FILE, "|-")
Forks with the file connected to the STDIN of the child process.
No, it means that what you read out of <FILE> will be input for *child
See perldoc perlopentut
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