Dear Perl Monks, I am a novice in perl and currently stuck with a problem. please help. My code has lines like: 

}elsif ($branchurl =~ /sites/) {
        $outfile_merge = 'STARTING MERGE FOR sites\n==================
+================\n';
   $branchurl =~ /sites\/(.+)\/branches/i;
        print "$1";
        $outfile_merge = `cd trunk/sites/$1; svn merge --dry-run $bran
+churl .`;
        print " 5 - $outfile_merge\n";
    }

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In the above snippet, I want to know if there is an error with the cd command or svn merge command and come out of the loop with a error message Can one of you recommend what best I can do please? Thanks a tonne !!

In reply to How to know the exit status of sub-commands running with backticks in Perl. by kkurnala

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