koacamper1:

It doesn't sound like a perl problem. I'd suggest running it by hand to see if the command is being created properly. You may also have to check the permissions, path, etc.

You could modify the script to change "system" to "print" and then you could see exactly what command line it's trying to run, then you can try it by hand and see what is or isn't happening.

...roboticus

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