Hi, I am trying to do a rcp command within a system command, and for some reason whether the system command always returns a 0, irrespective of whether the rcp call works or fails. Please look at my simplified version of my code and let me know what i am doing wrong here. 



use strict;

#create the file mine.txt if doesn't exist
if (! -e "mine.txt") {
    system("echo 'hey you' > mine.txt");
}

#delete the file min.txt if exists
if (-e "min.txt") {
    print "File unlink.txt ".unlink(<min.txt>)."deleted \n";
}

my $cmd1 = "rcp mine.txt cmd1.txt";
my $cmd2 = "rcp min.txt  cmd2.txt";
my ($val1, $val2); 

if ($val1 = system("$cmd1")) { print "$cmd1 failed \n"; }
if ($val2 = system("$cmd2")) { print "$cmd2 failed \n"; }

print "val1: $val1 \n";
print "val2: $val2 \n";

print " done \n";

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The result i get is as follows: 
cp: cannot access min.txt
val1: 0 
val2: 0 
 done

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In reply to unix rcp command within a system call by jalebie

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