Re: command execution

[kilaru rajeev]

Hi Irfan,

You can capture the exit status in the following way.

system("command");
$ExitStatus = $? >>8;

Regards,
Rajeev kilaru

On 2/2/07, Sayed, Irfan (Irfan) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi All,

I am executing following script. but even if the command execution fails
it prints as success exit status = 0

can anybody please help

Regards
Irfan.


use strict;
use warnings;
my $CT = '/usr/atria/bin/cleartool';
print " Creating the view for VB \n";
my $cmd = "$CT mkview -tag vb_test3 -tmode insert_cr -host puvob01
-hpath /home/ccvob01/vb_test3.vws -gpath /home/ccvob01/vb
_test3.vws /home/ccvob01/vb_test3.vws";
print "==> $cmd\n";
if (system("$cmd &> /tmp/jui") == 0) {
  print " success, exit status = $?\n";
} else {
  print " failure, exit status = $?\n";
}