Hi Monks, Trying to snag a single line from a process, or any output at this point. I have done this before, no biggie, usually. In a nutshell

my $hn = qx[c:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\hostname.exe];
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works, but

my $res = qx[c:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\dsquery.exe computer -name $hn];
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Fails with: 'c:\WINDOWS\system32\dsquery.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command.

Both these programs exist at that location. This is a recent vintage Strawberry Perl (like last week) on Windows Server 2003 64 bit. I am pretty sure it has something to do with 32/64 bits.

How to solve/workaround this? Full test script below.

#!perl

my $hn = qx[c:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\hostname.exe];
$hn =~ s/\s+$//;
print $hn."\n";
my $res = qx[c:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\dsquery.exe computer -name $hn];
print $res."\n";


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C:\scripts>perl dsquery.pl
WWWSERVER006
'c:\WINDOWS\system32\dsquery.exe' is not recognized as an internal or 
+external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\scripts>dir c:\WINDOWS\system32\hostname.exe
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 8065-2993

 Directory of c:\WINDOWS\system32

02/18/2007  06:00 AM            10,752 hostname.exe
               1 File(s)         10,752 bytes
               0 Dir(s)   5,173,231,616 bytes free

C:\scripts>dir c:\WINDOWS\system32\dsquery.exe
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 8065-2993

 Directory of c:\WINDOWS\system32

02/18/2007  06:00 AM           284,160 dsquery.exe
               1 File(s)        284,160 bytes
               0 Dir(s)   5,173,231,616 bytes free
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Solved: Yep, I had a 32 bit perl. So 64 bit programs seem "invisible". I switched to a full 64 bit perl to fix.