Windows NT: How Do I change Working/Current directory within a perl script,

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Re: Windows NT: How Do I change Working/Current directory within a perl script, by valdez (Monsignor) on Mar 22, 2003 at 14:48 UTC
Accordingly to perldoc -f system: Does exactly the same thing as "exec LIST", except that a fork is done first, and the parent process waits for the child process to complete. This means that only the forked process will change its working directory; you should use instead the command `chdir`. HTH, Valerio	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Windows NT: How Do I change Working/Current directory within a perl script, by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Mar 22, 2003 at 14:48 UTC
Anonymous Monk is correct. See also Cwd for additional directory changing goodness.	[reply]
Re: Windows NT: How Do I change Working/Current directory within a perl script, by Anonymous Monk on Mar 22, 2003 at 14:44 UTC
See perlfunc:chdir.	[reply]
Re: Windows NT: How Do I change Working/Current directory within a perl script, by Nkuvu (Priest) on Mar 22, 2003 at 14:51 UTC
chdir works, and I'd suggest that as well. But there's also the problem in your `system` call of backslashes and quotes. Specifically, you need to do one of three things -- change the quoted stuff to `"cd /d c:\\MyNewWorkingDir"` or `'cd /d c:\MyNewWorkingDir'` (note the single quotes) or `"cd /d c:/MyNewWorkingDir"` Note that I don't think this will solve your problems, as noted in other replies. But any other system calls will need to have the \ working properly...	[reply] [d/l] [select]