Re^2: How to know the exit status of sub-commands running with backticks in Perl.

can you please explain a little more? Thanks :)

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Re^3: How to know the exit status of sub-commands running with backticks in Perl. by GrandFather (Saint) on Apr 05, 2012 at 22:15 UTC
You may wish to read perlvar in addition to the system documentation already mentioned. Search for $?. Note too that if backticks fails it will set the special variable $!. True laziness is hard work	[reply]
Re^4: How to know the exit status of sub-commands running with backticks in Perl. by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 06, 2012 at 21:22 UTC
Only if `$? == -1`.	[reply] [d/l]