I’m successfully calling a Perl script from a shell script. Now I want to pass a return value from the Perl script indicating whether it was successful or not to the shell script. How would I go about doing this?
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I’m successfully calling a Perl script from a shell script. Now I want to pass a return value from the Perl script indicating whether it was successful or not to the shell script. How would I go about doing this?
Simply exit the Perl script with the appropriate exit value.
exit $exit_value;exit 0;if ($problem) { exit 1 }In the shell script you’ll have the usual
$?to check the return value.