the first one is because of the magic that windows uses for the "My Documents" and similar folders -- junctions. I have a couple links that I store in my scratchpad about junctions: Re^3: how to handle the warnings in a find statement and <JUNCTION>; how to recognize ... And the code that is in the private repo link (sorry, that's there for my benefit, not anyone else's) can be found in the spoiler. Please note: I make no guarantees about this code.

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edit: I guess I didn't say how you should update your code... when I was exploring junctions the end of last year, it was to get rid of a similar error in my backup-from-pc-to-NAS script that I run at home; basically, I just check beforehand if the path is a junction (using either isjunc or is_junction -- I forget which I chose, and I'm not at home right now to check), and if it is, I don't try to process that folder. (IIRC, "My Documents" is really "Documents", so when it follows the real one, everything works okay; but that's a bit vague. I may look things up when I get home.) /edit

for the second question, use the LIST version of system(). If you want your script to continue without waiting for notepad++, use the system(1,...) syntax mentioned in perlport: perl -e "my $f='readme.txt'; system(1, 'c:\usr\local\apps\notepad++\notepad++.exe', $f)"

In reply to Re: getting a few simple scripts to work on windows by pryrt
in thread getting a few simple scripts to work on windows by Aldebaran

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