Running perl on NT server

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am trying to run a search script on a NT server. The script works on my local NT workstation when I run it from "/perl/bin". I am using the File::Find module. I now need to run the search on my server searching the "inetpub/wwwroot" directory.
The problem is on the server the "inetpub/wwwroot" is on the F drive. I am trying to run this script to fetch data in this directory:
"inetput/wwwroot"
but get an error where it cant find the directory. Error message:


Can't stat /inetpub/wwwroot: No such file or directory
No such file or directory
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I am running it using the "use File::Find"
Here are my attempts:

find( &mySubroutine, "inetpub/wwwroot");
find( &mySubroutine, "F://inetpub/wwwroot");
find( &mySubroutine, "F:/inetpub/wwwroot");
find( &mySubroutine, "F:\\inetpub\wwwroot");
find( &mySubroutine, "F:\inetpub\wwwroot");
find( &mySubroutine, "\inetpub\wwwroot");
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Re: Running perl on NT server by Rhose (Priest) on Jun 25, 2003 at 15:58 UTC
Icky Windows backslashes... Smiles You need to double blackslash each one. You should be able to use either of these: `find( \&mySubroutine, 'F:\\inetpub\\wwwroot'); find( \&mySubroutine, 'F:/inetpub/wwwroot');` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Running perl on NT server by Anonymous Monk on Jun 25, 2003 at 16:12 UTC
Thanks	[reply]
Re: Running perl on NT server by Grygonos (Chaplain) on Jun 25, 2003 at 16:01 UTC
as far as I know, the correct way to list the directory is F:\\inetpub\\wwwroot you still need to double \ every directory . I haven't used File::Find so I can't tell you about your usage of that. Hope this helps some.	[reply]