Patched cygwin to the latest versions and an rsync script stopped working. I'm running activestate perl as the primary engine, with cygwin also deployed. I have a perl script with 
my $command =
 "c:\\cygwin64\\bin\\rsync.exe -ashv  -e plink $user\@$host:/var/log/s
+a/sar* .";
  print "Executing $command\n" if $DEBUG;
  my $retval    = `$command`;

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However, this no longer does the right thing. If I create a bash script with 
#!/bin/bash
rsync.exe -ashv weaverw@ROMSXLVB2B102:/var/log/sa/sar* .

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the right thing occurs (supplemented with ssh-pageant.) Is there a way programatically within perl to execute a command from within the cygwin environment? advTHANKSance, --woody

In reply to Running a cygwin command from within activestate by WoodyWeaver

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