Windows Explorer

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

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Re: Windows Explorer (from Perl) by grinder (Bishop) on Sep 24, 2003 at 16:36 UTC
You sure can. At the very least, the following works from the command line (ActiveState 5.6.1 build 633) `perl -e "system q{explorer}, q{c:\\temp}"` You can put that `system` in a script, and store the directory in a variable. You must use (escaped) backslashes in the directory path, otherwise the explorer.exe program will be unhappy. For more fine-grained control over the launching of the process you might want to look into the Win32 and Win32::Process modules.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Windows Explorer by Rich36 (Chaplain) on Sep 24, 2003 at 16:38 UTC
You can use something like: `my $dir = 'C:\Temp'; my $app = 'C:\WINNT\explorer.exe'; system("$app $dir");` [download] «Rich36»	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Windows Explorer by jplindstrom (Monsignor) on Sep 25, 2003 at 19:49 UTC
The command line interface is actually documented, but as usual very, very difficult to find on Microsoft's site. /J	[reply]
Re: Windows Explorer by seaver (Pilgrim) on Sep 24, 2003 at 16:33 UTC
Thats really a windows issue rather than perl, you can 'run' any program from perl but the actual name of windows explorer and the options it takes are beyond me. I say options, because I assume you'll have to pass the directory as an option into the executing windows explorer binary. cheers Sam	[reply]