On Dec 4, J-E-N said:

>below is my script but its not working as it should
>
>system("command") or die "command failed: $?\n";

system() returns 0 on SUCCESS, not failure.

  system("command") == 0 or die "command failed: $! ($?)";

perldoc -f system

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