Re^5: VSS automation strange problem

Are you really, really sure that you want to run the following command:

`SS Dir \"$/\" -Yadmin`
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Printing out the string that Perl (and the shell) would try to run shows me:

SS Dir "
" -Yadmin
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... 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?

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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]

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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 \"";
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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.

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