How do you capture stderr, stdout, and the exit code all at once, in Perl?

Question

Is it possible to run an external process from Perl, capture its stderr, stdout AND the process exit code?

I seem to be able to do combinations of these, e.g. use ba

Answer 1

If you're getting really complicated, you might want to try Expect.pm. But that's probably overkill if you don't need to also manage sending input to the process as well.