Hi,

I have a perl which executes multiple UNIX command (using the system f
+unction). 

Incase of any error in any one of the statements , I need to stop the 
+execution there and capture the actual error thrown. 

I tried using eval with $@ , but it didnt work.

This is what i tried:

---------------------------------------------------------
eval
{
        system("cp xyz.dat abc.dat");
        system("cp xyz.dat2 abc.dat2");

};

if ($?)
{
        print "Error occured :".$@;
        print "\n";
}
~
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And the output is:

% perl temp.perl
cp: cannot access xyz.dat
cp: cannot access xyz.dat2
Error occured :

---------------------------------------------------------

I want the control to come out when the first copy failed.And also wan
+t to cupture and log the actual error message.

Can some one tell how to achive this.


Thank you,
Pradeep

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