in reply to invoking rsh and testing for success/failure

if (`rsh ...` =~ /No match/) {
   die("File not found.\n");
}

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`` returns the STDOUT of the command as a string instead of displaying it. If you need both STDOUT and STDERR, redirect STDERR to STDOUT (by addiging "2>&1" to the command).

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Re^2: invoking rsh and testing for success/failure
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 01, 2005 at 17:21 UTC
    Thanks a bunch!! I finally figured it out and it works! really appreciate your help though. Have a great weekend! T
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