Hello,

I am new to perl. I am using a script, squirrel.pl for running database scripts automatically. It works fine on my linux box, but does not run on windows, and I need it to. I saw some general guidelines for making portable scripts, but this one is over 800 lines long. I am assuming that file paths with back slashes should be converted to forward slashes, but I cannot always tell where backslashes should remain as backslashes. For instance:

I assume all of these need to be converted

$sqlLog = "/opt/devOps/tools/squirrel/logs/squirrel-sql-" . $creationTime . ".log";. ,

but not sure about these:

if($chosenRealm=~/^prd$/ && !@ARGV)

or these:

elsif($connectionNames[$i]=~/4b/)

or these:

elsif($output=~/ORA-01031/ || $output=~/ORA-00942/ || $output=~/ORA-01749/)

Any insights are greatly appreciated. Thank you

In reply to script running on linux but not windows by thadc

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