I have written a program to compile some files recurssively. The program dies if there is a problem in compiling a particular file. Now it so happens that the customer of this script want the compiling to continue even if a file cannot be compild. In the sense that, the script needs to print out an ERROR message that the particular file was not compiled, and that the compiling has been resumed for the remaining files. In my discussions witha colleague, I figured that if the exit code is not zero the I can use it to print out the error message and resume the compiling. The point being now I will remove the "die" statement. Here's my question. How can I find out what the exit code was for the particular command? In the sense that if the command failed where would the exit number be stored? and what would that exit number be? Please see the sample code below: Can I say this? .... system(some command here to compile the files) if ($? != 0 || $status != 0) { some print statements... } .... I am using $? since it is the variable which has the exit value. And $status is when using a c-shell. Please advise if this is correct? Also I am a novice in perl programming, and this could as well be a blunder! ;-) Thanx for the help

In reply to exit status by ginju

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