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From: "Arms, Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Dax T. Games'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
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Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 13:03
Subject: RE: 'which' functionality in Perl
> Dax T. Games
On approximately 9/30/2003 11:46 AM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of Glenn Linderman:
On approximately 9/30/2003 11:03 AM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of Arms, Mike:
Dax T. Games [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How would I determine if a file existed in a directory
On approximately 9/30/2003 11:03 AM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of Arms, Mike:
Dax T. Games [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How would I determine if a file existed in a directory in the
PATH environment variable on a Windows box with Perl. If the
file exists I want to return the f
Dax T. Games [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How would I determine if a file existed in a directory in the
> PATH environment variable on a Windows box with Perl. If the
> file exists I want to return the full path to the file.
>
> The functionality I want is similar to 'which' on Unix/Linux.
Dax,
>> How would I determine if a file existed in a directory in the
>> PATH environment variable on a Windows box with Perl. If the
>> file exists I want to return the full path to the file.
try this
http://www.perl.com/language/ppt/src/which/index.html
David "Sniper" Rigaudiere
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You know, I found a funny way of emulating "which" using Perl a few years
back. This doesn't solve your problem (it's already solved by the look of
Helen Bennet's email), but is more along the lines of interesting related
things. If you enter this at the command prompt:
perl -S notepad.exe
you
You should try this: http://search.cpan.org/~sdague/ppt-0.12/
.
It provides you all the *NIX utilities working in Perl and in DOS.
There are lots of these *NIX tools, nowadays (Sourceforge).
But what is interesting of this one is that you can get the code and
learn a lot about how they are im
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Helen Bennett wrote:
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> > Sent: 27 September 2003 22:10
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> > Subject: 'which' functionality in Perl
> >
> > How would I determine if a fi
Hi
There is probably a module somewhere that does it.. but the following function
works as well .. may need to clean up the items returned from path as they may
have "\" on the end, butt still works.
Helen
sub which ( $ )
{
my ( $file ) = @_ ;
$path = $ENV{"PATH"} ;
foreach $dir (split
Title: RE: 'which' functionality in Perl
Which, along with many other *nix commands, is included in the Unix95 set. I can email this to you, or you can get it from http://whizzmo.com/unix95.zip (~1meg zip file).
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