Bob,
Consider:
cls.pl
use strict;
my @switches = @ARGV;
foreach(@switches) {
print"$_\n";
}
$ perl -e '
my @clss = ("cls.pl", "one", "two", "three");
system @clss;'
output:
one
two
three
Takes the first element treats it as an executable and the rest of the list
as arguments.
HTH
"Bob H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> I have a program that gets an EXE file using a regex pattern and puts it
> into a file variable:
>
> foreach(@list) {
> if(m/\d{8}.*x86.exe/) {
> push(@match,$_)
> }
> }
>
> I then download the matching file:
>
> if(scalar(@match)) {
> $file=$match[$#match];
> print "Downloaded file $file\n";
> $ftp->binary();
> $ftp->get($file);
> }
>
> I now want to run the downloaded EXE with some command line switches. I
> have tried it with system but it doesn't seem to like using the variable
> $file plus switches so I was wondering about how to get the filename out
> of the $file variable. If that makes sense.
>
> Bob
>
>
>
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