Re: close and autodie on pipes

[runrig]

in reply to close and autodie on pipes

If you want to catch exceptions, use eval:

my $result = eval { close $fh };
unless ($result) {
  print "Got an error: $@\n";
}

Or even:

my $result = eval {
  open my $fh, '-|', 'bash -c "echo Hello; exit 1"';
  print for <$fh>;
  close $fh;
};
...