Re: Re: Re: qx vs WScript: Why didn't qx work in my ActiveState's PerlScript?

Sorry for the confusion :p... I meant to use "ls" merely as a generic example. (Maybe I should use "foo"?)... Besides, I do have ls.exe on my Windows (Windows-port of Unix tools). Thanks.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: qx vs WScript: Why didn't qx work in my ActiveState's PerlScript? by helgi (Hermit) on Sep 12, 2002 at 09:51 UTC
Yes, but if you are running this from a browser, you are not running as yourself, but as httpd or whatever your web server calls itself on your platform. This user has an empty path and to use a program such as ls.exe, you must give it the full path to it. It may also not have the rights to execute the program Regards, Helgi Briem	[reply]