On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, FlashGuy wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a web interface where I'm executing a compiled perl script. Within the perl
>script I'm trying to execute a DOS command but its not working properly.
> If I put my command in a batch file and execute the batch file from the perl script
>it works. I know it's because copy is not a program...it's a function inside the
>command.com
> /cmd.exe shell interpreter. That's why it works when it's a batch file...because
>the batch is implicitly run under the shell interpreter.
>
> This is the line in my perl script that is not quite doing what I want it to do.
>Copy the file.
>
> system("command.com copy /C d:\test\input.ps e:\test\output.ps");
>
>
> When I run the above line from a DOS command prompt this is the error I get.
>
> File not found - D:\TEST\INPUT.PS
> 0 file(s) copied
>
> What wrong?
As has been pointed out D:\TEST\INPUT.PS is not present. Why don't you use
File::Copy comes with the standard perl distro.
perldoc File::Copy
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