Peter Scott wrote:
>
> At 11:35 AM 1/31/02 -0500, Dave Benware wrote:
> >The line system "dir foo.txt"; returned "Bad command or file name".
> >
> >foo.txt does exist and I can run dir foo.txt within a dos box just
> >fine. Interestingly to me, system "dir"; worked okay. I guess it
> >just won't take an argument.
> >
> >So, have I installed Perl improperly?
>
> Nope. It just thinks that the name of the command you're running is "dir
> foo.txt". Separate the arguments explicitly, e.g.,:
>
> C:\WINDOWS>perl -e "system qw(dir mouse.txt)"
>
> Volume in drive C is WIN_C
> Volume Serial Number is 3C20-89C9
> Directory of C:\WINDOWS
>
> MOUSE TXT 5,946 04-23-99 10:22p MOUSE.TXT
> 1 file(s) 5,946 bytes
> 0 dir(s) 7,113.59 MB free
>
> --
> Peter Scott
> Pacific Systems Design Technologies
> http://www.perldebugged.com
Yah, that works fine, tho I don't understand why. Is there some doc I
can read on this? Also, I forgot to say that: exec "dir foo.txt"; worked
okay which confused me.
thanks,
Bompa
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