how to execute shell file in perl?

[Gopinath]

i have shell file which will execute set commands to activate the mesh interface in my CRB board.
in my perl file i tried to execute using system(location of file);
but am not getting correct output but it is returning true...

my code

$mesh_base="/mnt/jffs2/conf/mesh_start";
system($mesh_ba se);

[RonB]

You don't have any error checking/handling on that system call, so how do you know it's returning true?

What output are you getting and how does that differ from what you expect?

[miller]

As RonB pointed out, you aren't checking to see if system succeeded. According to perldoc system, a true return value would actually be an indication of failure. If you don't want to worry about explicitly checking for success, use the autodie pragma.

use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie qw(:all);

my $mesh_base = '/mnt/jffs2/conf/mesh_start"'
system($mesh_base);

- Miller