use constant { TRUE => 1, FALSE => 0 }; our $SUCCESS = 0; our %ErrorStrings = ( "No such file or directory" => TRUE, "does not exist in file" => TRUE, ); # Run command. @Output = qx { command here 2>&1 }; $RetCode1=$?; # If the return was success, we need to scan the output for errors. if ($RetCode1 == $SUCCESS) { # Scan the output and build a list of errors. my @FileErrors = grep { exists $ErrorStrings{$_} } @Output; if (@FileErrors) { $RetCode1 = scalar(@FileErrors); printf "Errors found: [%d] ", $RetCode1; push (@ProcErrors, @FileErrors); } # Non success error code. } else { printf "Error Code: [%d] ", $RetCode1; } # Output a status. printf "%-15s\n", ($RetCode1 == 0) ? "SUCCESS":"FAILED";