I am currently using a Korn shell script to launch Perl scripts in sequence. However the shell script doesn't give me much flexibility. I'm looking for a simple way in Perl to launch a series of perl scripts (1.pl, 2.pl, 3.pl for examples) and after each script is run, test to see if the script was able to run or not. If the script did not run, I need to generate an errorlog text file and put something in the text file (ie., Perl script 1.pl did not run). Thanks in advance! I am just learning Perl and it definitely has a learning curve! Note: I DO NOT want to use "warn" or a similar function to print to the screen. My errors should go to a text logfile. THANKS! Tom

In reply to Using Perl to launch another Perl script and generate error log if it fails by Tomw72us

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