Re^6: perl -d myprog autostarts - but only in one specific directory

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yes, you are right.

Can there be some magic behind that -e 'con' which obviously did not kick in in the Unix case? I tried to use logic in the absence of a windows machine, but that failed me, being m$! "CON" (like LPT, AUX and some others) are all DOS reserved words and can not be the name of files, unless doing some hack (which will confuse Perl!). So, I am not sure that your dir CON failed because of that restriction or because of not existing a CON file. In any event, your perl oneliner is proof enough.

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Re^7: perl -d myprog autostarts - but only in one specific directory by pryrt (Abbot) on Jan 18, 2022 at 21:54 UTC
Sorry, yes, my point with the `dir CON` was to show there wasn't a filesystem file in the active directory called CON, that the `-e "con"` really was finding the magic CON, not some local file or directory that happened to be named CON. I guess I should have added more verbiage to explain that.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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