I want to get both the output and status of a pipe. Here is a working example:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;

open my $fh, '-|', 'bash -c "echo Hello; exit 1"';
print <$fh>;
close $fh;
my $status = $? >> 8;
print "$status\n";
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Fine. It outputs

Hello
1
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Now let's try to use autodie:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use autodie;

open my $fh, '-|', 'bash -c "echo Hello; exit 1"';
print <$fh>;
close $fh;
my $status = $? >> 8;
print "$status\n";
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No good, that breaks it:

Hello
Can't close(GLOB(0x10082a098)) filehandle: '' at test.pl line 7
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It is the "close" statement. So we can take that out.

use strict;
use autodie;

open my $fh, '-|', 'bash -c "echo Hello; exit 1"';
print <$fh>;
#close $fh;
my $status = $? >> 8;
print "$status\n";
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Now it is broken differently---it has lost the exit status:

Hello
0
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I need to call close in order to get the exit status of a pipe.

So now I have settled on this ugly thing:

use strict;
use autodie;

open my $fh, '-|', 'bash -c "echo Hello; exit 1"';
print <$fh>;
{no autodie;
 close $fh;}
my $status = $? >> 8;
print "$status\n";
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That seems to work, but I'm not doing any error checking on the close statement:

Hello
1
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Can I use close with autodie when my pipe fails? If not, how should I check for errors?

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