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perl system call exit status...similar to $? in ksh

Tags: perl, system, call, status, exit
Hi,
   I have a perl script which uses system call to call unix command
and want to print good if the return status is 0 and false if return code is not 0.

the korn script:
#!/bin/ksh
/tmp/somescript
if [ $? -eq 0]; then
   echo "script run successfully"
else
   echo "script does not run successfully"
fi

how can I use perl to do the same thing as above korn script?


#!/usr/local/bin/perl
system("/tmp/somescript");
.
.
.



thanks in advance.
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