Calling perl from shell script, how do I pass return value from perl to shell?

Question

I'm successfully calling a perl script from a shell script. Now I want to pass a return value from the perl script indicating whether it was successful or not to the shell script. How would I go about doing this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Simply exit the Perl script with the appropriate exit value.

exit $exit_value;

exit 0;

if ($problem) { exit 1 }

In the shell script you'll have the usual $? to check the return value.