The perl core has a way of detecting non-zero exit statuses: $ perl -Mautodie=sy...

		jrockway on July 16, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What's your most-used function that you wr... The perl core has a way of detecting non-zero exit statuses: `$ perl -Mautodie=system -e 'system("/bin/false")' "/bin/false" unexpectedly returned exit value 1 at (eval 5) line 13 at -e line 1` Pretty nice.