Re: How to execute a command under win98 via perl script?

Hi, don't forget to double '\' inside a "" quoted string. Regards, Martin Kellner Wenjie Wang: 27.08.2003 12:08 system "copy c:\a.txt d:\a.txt"; - Wenjie Wang(a.k.a. William) [EMAIL PROTECTED] WANG I

Re: How to execute a command under win98 via perl script?

Hi, doesn't system "copy c:\\a.txt d:\\"; work? Regards, Martin Kellner Tony Cheung: 27.08.2003 09:51 Hi, everybody How to execute a command under win98 via perl script? Example: copy c:\a.txt d:\ Thanks

Antwort: Neater?

Hi, try: foreach my $sheet (1, 2, 4) { print "\$sheet = $sheet\n"; } Regards, Martin Kellner |-+---> | | Beckett Richard-qswi266 | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | |

Short windows pathname

Hello, if I hve given a long pathname, for example C:\Program Files\Active Perl\ and I need the short one using the tilde convention C:\Progra~1\Active~1\ what's the way to create this one? Regards, Martin Kellner

Re: Setting the actual directory with a Perl script.

Hello, thats not exactly the behaviour I wanted. Its a little bit complicated, because instead C:\>test_cd.pl C:/ C:/ c:/temp C:\> I want to have C:\>test_cd.pl C:/ C:/ c:/temp C:\temp\> (using your code as test_cd.pl). Regards, Marti

Antwort: question about copying a directory tree from one place to another

Hi, did you use system xcopy /E ... ("Copies directories and subdirectories, including empty ones.")? Bye, Martin. ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users