Re: Executing perl program from another perl program and capturing the output

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The 'brute force' solution to problems with long windows names is, as your suggest, to use their short alias. You can learn the short name of a file (or directory) by using the /X option of the dir command. There are other options, but I usually prefer this.

Bill

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Re^2: Executing perl program from another perl program and capturing the output by Anonymous Monk on Nov 25, 2014 at 03:16 UTC
by using the /X option of the dir command. :) Seeing how the OPs issue is not howing how to call the shell and stuff, using the shell to discover shortname is going to be hard :) Win32::GetShortPathName otoh is much easier	[reply]

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