How can I check the status of the first program in pipeline in Perl's system()?

Question

perl -e \'system (\"crontab1 -l\");print $?\'

returns -1 as expected (program crontab1 doesn\'t exist)

perl -e \'system (\"crontab1 -l|         


        

Answer 1

If you tolerate using something other than system, there are easier solutions. For example, the results method in IPC::Run returns all exit codes of the chain.