Hi,
Thanks for the reply. Sorry for asking this one. But how to run
another perl prog?
Should I have to use system() function? Or is there any other way?
Thanks,
Durai.
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From: "Jose Alves de Castro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Durai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: Running another program in current program
> It's the same variable :-)
>
> $? The status returned by the last pipe close, backtick (``) com-
> mand, successful call to wait() or waitpid(), or from the sys-
> tem() operator.
>
> For more info, man perlvar
>
> If you care to give it a test, here it goes:
>
> perl -e '`ls`;print $?'
> # prints "0" (hopefully)
>
> perl -e '`nonexistingcommand`;print $?'
> # prints "1" (unless you have some strange command on your machine...)
>
> HTH,
>
> jac
>
> On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 11:08, Durai wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > In shell script file, I can call another program & checked the exit
status.
> > Like:
> >
> > ./prog2
> > if [ $? -ne 0 ]
> > then
> > echo "Error"
> > exit
> > fi
> >
> > How to do in perl?
> >
> > ANy help much appreciated.
> >
> > Regs,
> > Durai.
> >
> >
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