Hello!

I need to execute command, display it's output and get exit code.
open(X, '-|', 'cmd') is a good one, but it returns pid in this form and $? is zero, so I can't get a return code.
`cmd` can do everything, but it returns output after command was executed, and I need to display output and put it into log file, just like tee.
There is one more way, the most complicated: 
my $pid = open(PIPE, '-|');
die "open(): $?" unless (defined $pid);
if ($pid) {
    while (<PIPE>) { print $_; }
    close(PIPE);
} else {
    die "system(): $!" unless (system($cmd));
    die "failed to execute: $!" if ($? == -1);
    die "signal: ". ($? & 127) if ($? & 127);
    die "exit code: ". ($? >> 8) if ($? >> 8);
}

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There is just one problem. I need to deliver $? into parent process...

So, dear monks, is there any way to receive command output in a realtime and get it's exit code in some easy way?

In reply to Execute command, show realtime output and get exit code by afunix

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