#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; use POSIX ":sys_wait_h"; my $var1 = 3; my $var2 = 5; system ("./perl651.sh", $var1, $var2); my $status = $?; if ($status == -1) { print "failed to execute: $!\n"; } elsif (WIFEXITED($status)) { print "exited with return code ".WEXITSTATUS($status)."\n"; } elsif (WIFSIGNALED($status)) { print "terminated by signal ".WTERMSIG($status)."\n"; } else { print "other status $status\n"; }