On Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 4:41 pm, Jason wrote: > Hi All, > > I need to write a script that cooperates with a bunch of other scripts > in the 'toolbox' paradigm which is often thought of as a core tenet of > UNIX philosophy. In particular, when my script fails, the other > scripts will look in $? and based on the number therein they will > perform some actions. However, I don't know how to write to $? and so > I may have to rewrite a whole bunch of scripts to read from STDERR. > Not something I am looking forward to. How to a send a value to $? in > Perl? I have tried the return function but that only works in > subroutines . . . > > Thanks in Advance, > Jason Dusek
Hi Jason, you need to supply a value to the exit command - e.g.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gary]$ perl -e 'exit 4'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] gary]$ echo $? 4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] gary]$ -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
