Re: exit status

Arndt Jonasson wrote:
"Paul Lalli" <mritty@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Jerry Adair wrote:
I am attempting to return an error code from a Perl script. At first
blush, it seemed easy with the exit() call. But it doesn't work.

Sure as heck seems to me like you just said exit() doesn't work. Where
am I mistaken?

Perhaps "it" = "attempting to return an error code from a Perl
script", not "it" = "the exit() call".

I'm not seeing the distinction, since exit() *is* how you return an
error code from a Perl script.

Paul Lalli

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