How to capture STDOUT and the exit code

[Mushy-pea]

Hello everyone. Does anyone know if there is a way to start a child process from within a script, then capture the child's standard output and exit code? From looking at the docs it seems that

$status = system("command");

lets you capture the exit code but not STDOUT. While

$output = `command`;

gives you the STDOUT but not exit status. Any help appriciated.

Steven.

[KevinADC]

See if anything helps you:

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlipc.html

[ostkaka]

do you mean

echo $?

[Mushy-pea]

Yes. I have checked out the Perl documentation and that's just the job. Thanks.

Steven.