yes, but the $? in perl is different from the $? in bash.
I test the curl command in bash and in perl: 
[larry@august-dev perl]$ curl --max-time 3 http://someweb.org 2>&1
curl: (6) name lookup timed out
[larry@august-dev perl]$ echo $?
6

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and if I put it in perl like: 
 #!/usr/bin/perl
 use strict;
 use warnings;

 my $result = `curl --max-time 3 http://someweb.org 2>&1`;
 print "exit status: $?\n";
 print "result:\n", $result, "\n";

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then I got: 
[larry@august-dev perl]$ ./foo.pl
exit status: 1536
result:
curl: (6) name lookup timed out

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How does perl translate the bash $? 6 to its own $? 1536 ?
Is there a convenient way to translate it back? </code>

In reply to Re^2: How to get the exit status and the output of the command launched in perl by sunshine_august
in thread How to get the exit status and the output of the command launched in perl by sunshine_august

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