running one perl script from another

[bcdixit]

Hello,
I am trying to write a perl wrapper script that runs multiple other perl scripts. I want to get status of those perl scripts and status of those scripts on stdout.

Here is a brief explanation of what I want to do.
i have a script perl_wrapper.pl and three scripts perl_1.pl, perl_2.pl and perl_3.pl

perl_wrapper.pl will execute perl_1, perl_2 and perl_3 .
I want something like this to display something like this on the screen.

starting started

perl_1.... passed
perl_2.... passed
perl_3.... failed

I want the perl_wrapper.pl to capture the status of each of the perl scripts that it is running.

any good ways of doing this in perl? I don't have any code written for this yet. Just expecting some kind of hints.

Thanks

 

[MillerH]

do

- Miller

 

[KevinADC]

I've never tried this, but you could have your perl scripts return a value to the wrapper script that indicates success just before the program exits. Something like:

return(1);
exit;

if there are any failures while the scripts are running have the scripts return zero:

return(0);

then exit.


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- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!