Greetings O wise ones,

I am trying to capture the output of the "mkdir savehere" command, but dont know the possible errors that could be thrown [other that subdirectory already exists], could there be one due to size or permissions??

Anyway all im trying to do is continue with script execution in case of a "pass"/"subdirectory already exists"[That ones fine, will have to print a warning and continue], but stop script execution after printing an error message if any other error is encountered.

Right now im pattern matching for outputs of the command, but dont know any of the other error messages :(,

my $op = `mkdir winlog`;
if ($op =~ /already exists/i)
    {
        print "Warning : folder already exists.";
    }

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Please Help!!

In reply to Handling returns from mkdir. by dannyd

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