in reply to Accessing an executable from perl script

To get the error status from $abc_cmd, you can write: 

system($abc_cmd) and die $? >> 8;

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You can inspect $? in other ways: see system.

There are other variables you may want to check: see perlvar - Error Variables.

-- Ken

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Re^2: Accessing an executable from perl script
by dpetrov (Acolyte) on Mar 02, 2012 at 15:17 UTC
    or using some module like autodie could be handy, here is a link https://metacpan.org/module/autodie
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