Thanks guys for replying to my request for 'elp.
Looks like I'll go with the 'print the value in the perl script and assign
the value to a shell variable in the calling script' (thx tigger). The db
record ID I want to capture contains letters, so ABC1234 is probably not a
vald return value. Eith
> Anyone know if it's possible for the return/exit value of a script, in the
> event of success, to be something other than 0?
>
The 'exit' command should work just like it does in the shell: 'exit 9;' for
example, *should* give you an exit status of 9 (although I couldn't get it
to work for me a m
Mark Henry wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Anyone know if it's possible for the return/exit value of a script, in the
> event of success, to be something other than 0?
>
> I want to call, from a shell script, a perl script that determines a
> certain
> record ID from a database. When the ID has been obtai
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:29:49 -0400, "HENRY,MARK (HP-Roseville,ex1)" <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Anyone know if it's possible for the return/exit value of a script, in the
> event of success, to be something other than 0?
>
> I want
