05:27pm tina@lux:tina 501> TEST=`perl -wle'print "test";1;'`
05:27pm tina@lux:tina 502> echo $?
0
05:27pm tina@lux:tina 503> TEST=`perl -wle'print "test";exit 1;'`
05:28pm tina@lux:tina 504> echo $?
1