Re: capturing mysql errors with backticks

[Peter Leigh]

The error is being printed on stderr, but backticks only capture output on stdout.

You could try using:

my $var = `/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -u user -ppassword < load_dbs.sql 2>&1`;

which uses a shell redirect (the 2>&1 at the end) to make stderr output go to stdout instead, making it available to be picked up by your backticks.