Re: use of Backticks to catch console output

solved.

eval { $converted_text   = `../Desktop/p2t -nodiag -layout -enc UTF-8 
+$PathDocumentUnicode -` }
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Why I have to add '..' is not clear to me. But it does the trick.

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Re^2: use of Backticks to catch console output by harangzsolt33 (Deacon) on Dec 10, 2022 at 17:42 UTC
You putting two dots before the path turns the path into a relative path whereas having / as the first character makes it an absolute path. In Windows, the Desktop folder is usually found within the user's folder which is located under C:\Users C:\Users\username\Desktop is a valid path but C:\Desktop is not likely unless you have created such a directory. Also: It is not common practice in Windows to store exe files in the Desktop directory! The Desktop directory usually has Word documents, pictures, txt files and lnk files.	[reply]

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Re^2: use of Backticks to catch console output
by harangzsolt33 (Deacon) on Dec 10, 2022 at 17:42 UTC

C:\Users\username\Desktop is a valid path but C:\Desktop is not likely unless you have created such a directory.

Also: It is not common practice in Windows to store exe files in the Desktop directory! The Desktop directory usually has Word documents, pictures, txt files and lnk files.

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