Re: Exit status of system commands

2009-01-01 Thread Chas. Owens
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 07:38, Duck wrote: > I am writing a script to ping several systems and then to run nslookup > on those that fail the ping test. How do I capture the exit status of > the system commands. I tried something like: > > $status = system("nslookup xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"); > print "$st

Re: Exit status of system commands

2009-01-01 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 04:38 -0800, Duck wrote: > I am writing a script to ping several systems and then to run nslookup > on those that fail the ping test. How do I capture the exit status of > the system commands. I tried something like: > > $status = system("nslookup xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"); > print

Exit status of system commands

2009-01-01 Thread Duck
I am writing a script to ping several systems and then to run nslookup on those that fail the ping test. How do I capture the exit status of the system commands. I tried something like: $status = system("nslookup xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"); print "$status"; but this seems to print "0" every time whether