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From: "Harry Putnam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 6:41 PM
Subject: (OS=winxp) system cmd dies but performs the command
> I'm not used to writing perl scripts on windows. I'm having a
> problem where a system call dies but still performs the command.
> I don't think I understand how exit status is checked.
>
> my $target = "E:/some_dir/another_dir";
> system("mkdir $target") or die "Can't mkdir $target: $!";
>
> The script stops at the `or die' but looking in E:/ I see `dir' has
> been created. Also the error ouput ($!) has no value.
>
> I get this error:
> Can't mkdir E:/some_dir/another_dir At: blah blah line 23
>
> So the command didn't really fail but perl thinks it did.
>
> May be notable that the script is running on C: and the target is on E:
>
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