siegfried wrote: >>> I think the best I could hope for would be to write a perl script that >>> generated a bat file and then I manually execute the bat file. I don't >>> think there is anyway to automate the execution of the bat file. >> I'm sure that there is; if you can't put it into its own bat file, you >> could have Perl itself execute it via the system() command. Since new >> processes (such as those run with system()) inherit the environment, > > Yeah: that is precisely the problem. The child inherits from the parent. Can > I make the child manipulate the environment table in the parent? I don't > think so. Please tell me I'm wrong. > > >> it's easy to set up %ENV however you'd like. >> >> Hope this helps! >> >> --Tom Phoenix >> Stonehenge Perl Training > > Tom, > Please elaborate. I need to have an interactive command shell with the > symbols set up. > > Anytime I run a perl program that uses backquotes or system, those symbols > that are defined by perl will only be good for duration of the perl program > and as soon as perl exits, I'll have a command prompt with none of the new > symbols defined -- correct? > > I believe this is true for all *nix and windows shells. > > Thanks, > Siegfried > > Siegfried, as far as I know a child cannot modify its parent. Tom is smart then I am though, so he may know something I don't.
You can get the time and date to use in file or directory name in Windows batch. http://www.robvanderwoude.com/index.html has some examples. Of course Windows batch is an abysmal scripting language, so if you want to do anything non-trival it is worth doing, or re-doing in Perl. -- MattJ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
