All, am I using the correct method to get the return code whether a previous line or command was 0 false or 1 true?
thank you, #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict; use strict 'subs'; my $file = qq(/tmp/mbfree); open (F, "+<$file") or die "unable to open file $file $!\n"; foreach (<F>) { if ( $. > 2 ) { last; } else { print "return code is: $? \n"; last; } } print "line count is: $. \n"; print "return code is: $? \n"; close (F); Derek B. Smith OhioHealth IT UNIX / TSM / EDM Teams -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>