I am issuing a command to system and trying to code to catch a failure (believing this to be good practise).
Unfortunately the result is that my script thinks the command has failed yet when I check it actually executed fine.
Suggestions as to where I am going wrong and or how I should be doing this please?

#!c:/perl/bin/perl -w

if ($result=`.\path\command`) { 
   print "Successful\n" ;
   &doSomethingIfNecessary();
   }

else {
   print "Unsuccessful\n" ;
   &ohDearTimeToDie();
   }

exit 0;

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