At work here we are converting a tcl script into a perl script. One of the interesting lines of the tcl script is the following: 
set f_handle [open {|./script.pl >& script.log} a]

-----Some deleted code--------

if [catch {close $f_handle} ] {
    send_mail "Script had a problem, returned non-zero status!." 
} else {
    send_mail "Script ok."
}

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What this code does is open a process and run "./script.pl >& script.log" alongside of the tcl script. Then later, the "catch" function waits for the script to finish (if it hasn't) and grabs the exit value of "script.pl". Is there a way to do a similar thing in perl? Remember that the "script.pl" actually runs in parallel with the tcl script.

In reply to TCL to Perl by RollyGuy

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