Brahadambal S wrote:
Hi,
Could anyone tell me how to execute a .bat or .exe file through Perl?
i.e, the perl code should invoke the executable. Thanks so much for your
help(in advance).
Perl has two standard ways:
1) system() function, which executes an external program and returns its
exit status. This is documented under "perldoc -f system"
2) backticks (e.g. $result = `someprog`), which executes an external
program and captures its output. This is documented under "perldoc
perlop". A qx// is a synonym for backticks.
Both of these wait for the spawned process to terminate before returning.
If you want to execute the process asynchronously, the standard Unix
approach is to use fork/exec or pipe open. I think these may be emulated
on Windows by ActiveState's perl, and there's also a Win32::Process
module that uses Windows API's for process spawning.
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