Re^4: VSS automation strange problem

When I run this from Komodo

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Win32;
my $user = Win32::LoginName();
print "$user\n\n";
my $tasklist = `tasklist /v`;
print $tasklist;
chdir('C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual SourceSafe');
$ENV{SSDIR} = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual SourceSafe';
my $env = `echo %SSDIR%`;
print "\n$env\n";
my $result = `SS Dir \"$/\" -Yadmin`;
print $result;
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I get the one user (me) on the system, perl.exe has the same user, it echoes the correct SSDIR, then I get the error about the SSDIR variable not being set. When I run echo %USERDOMAIN%\%USERNAME% from the command window I get the same user as the script. Also when I drop the script into the VSS directory and run it from the command line I get the same result, running either in a plain command window or and administrator command window. So I guess it's not a Komodo issue.

How strange.

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Re^5: VSS automation strange problem by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 04, 2017 at 14:16 UTC
Are you really, really sure that you want to run the following command: `SS Dir \"$/\" -Yadmin` [download] Printing out the string that Perl (and the shell) would try to run shows me: `SS Dir " " -Yadmin` [download] ... which most likely is not what you intended it to be. At least, I am unaware of Windows programs that handle newlines in their argument line well, if the shell even passes them through. What did you expect `"$/"` to do?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: VSS automation strange problem by Lotus1 (Vicar) on Jan 04, 2017 at 15:30 UTC
Good catch Corion! In my suggestion on the original thread I had escaped the dollar sign so that "`$/`" would be passed to `ss.exe`. VSS commands use `$/` as the root project path. `my $cmd = "\"$sspath\\ss.exe\" Checkin \"\$/DMS MW/SCADA/Substation E +ditor F +iles/$filename\" -C\"$comment\" -I- -GL\"$checkout_path \"";` [download] This is likely to solve the user issues in the OP since as you pointed out the newline puts the `-Yadmin` option on a different command line in the command session.	[reply] [d/l] [select]