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

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 $!.

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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.
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