At 12:58 +0200 2002.08.18, Louis Pouzin wrote: >When I call a perl script from within a unix shell script, I'd like the perl >script to set $status to some value for the shell script to use on return. > >I have tried a number of ways to no avail. $status is always 0 in the shell >script when the perl script returns.
Try exit($status); that should give you what you want, I think. >Anyone knows the how-to, or should I go to another list (unix ??). In the future, macperl-anyperl is probably the best list to use. -- Chris Nandor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pudge.net/ Open Source Development Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://osdn.com/
