I don't think that SCRIPT2 is ever getting invoked. The reason I think that is that I strongly suspect that $? is -1 inside SCRIPT1. (please post the actual $? value, not $?>>8)
I strongly urge you to put the following code, taken from the perlfunc manpage where it talks about the system call, after your call to system:
if ($? == -1) {
print "failed to execute: $!\n";
}
elsif ($? & 127) {
printf "child died with signal %d, %s coredump\n",
($? & 127), ($? & 128) ? 'with' : 'without';
}
else {
printf "child exited with value %d\n", $? >> 8;
}
I suspect that you'll see the "failed to execute" message.
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@/=map{[/./g]}qw/.h_nJ Xapou cets krht ele_ r_ra/;
map{y/X_/\n /;print}map{pop@$_}@/for@/
