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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl script to rename file,error Post 302451430 by frank_rizzo on Tuesday 7th of September 2010 12:13:01 AM
Old 09-07-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by cola
Why don't you suggest this?
How can i check the return code?
There is no technical reason to use mv in a Perl script because the functionality is already built-in. Use the native function to avoid creating additional processes(fork).

Check the value of $?. See http://perldoc.perl.org/perlvar.html. for additional information.
 

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