IMHO, the suggestions put forward thus far, whilst returning the status code back to the calling script, don't appear to address leonidlm's interest in the output from the called batch script - so why not just use backticks. That way, you gain access to the return code (via $?) and the output (via the return from the backtick invocation) e.g. 

my $output = `batch_file args`;
die "Gone horribly wrong - $?" if $?;
# or ...
my @output = `batch_file args`;
die "Gone horribly wrong - $?" if $?;

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.oO(Unless, of course, Windoze sees fit to not return the status code from the batch script, in which case...) 

my $output = `batch_file args && exit /b ERRORLEVEL`;
die "Gone horribly wrong - $?" if $?;
# or ...
my @output = `batch_file args && exit /b ERRORLEVEL`;
die "Gone horribly wrong - $?" if $?;

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,or something similar, may suffice ... unless I'm missing something obvious?!

Sits back and awaits flames, errm, constructive observations ;-)

HTH ,

At last, a user level that overstates my experience :-))

In reply to Re: perl and windows batch by Bloodnok
in thread perl and windows batch by leonidlm

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