Hello again and thank you for useful feedback. I am making very preliminary progress. I absolutely had to change some file paths up front for:

#set the log files

my $creationTime = strftime "%F-%R:%S", localtime;

$sqlLog = "C:/Users/thclotworthy/squirrel/logs/squirrel-sql-" . $creationTime . ".log";

$scriptLog = "C:/Users/thclotworthy/squirrel/logs/squirrel-" . $creationTime . ".log";

However, I am immediately getting error on the following line:

#Setup filehandlers for the mysql output log and the squirrel log

open($sqlFh, ">", $sqlLog) or exitOnError("Could not open $sqlLog for writing. Exiting......\n");

open($scriptFh, ">", $scriptLog) or exitOnError("Could not open $scriptLog for writing. Exiting......\n");

, where the exit on error is generated. Here is the exit on error subroutine:

sub exitOnError

{

    my $errorString = $_[0];

    print $sqlFh "$errorString\n";

    print $scriptFh "$errorString\n";

    print "$errorString\n";

    exit(9);

}

, and here is the actual failure message on the terminal:

print() on closed filehandle $sqlFh at squirrelBAK.pl line 855. Can't use an undefined value as a symbol reference at squirrelBAK.pl line 856.

, So I am guessing that sqlFh perhaps needs to be initialized and I am not doing that?. The only instance of it before the code above is at the beginning of the script with other parameters:

 my $dbHost;
my $dbPort;
my $serviceName;
my @connectionNames;
my %usernames;
my %passwords;
my $chosenRealm;
my $release;
my $releasePath;
my $sqlLog;
my $sqlFh;
my $scriptLog;
my $scriptFh;

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, So perhaps I supposed to be passing it as a command line argument or something? Grateful for any ideas. Thank you!

In reply to Re^2: script running on linux but not windows -- File::Spec by thadc
in thread script running on linux but not windows by thadc

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