Hi Monks!

I am facing a problem to execute a command using system. I have written following script to copy a file from ClearCase.

mkdir ("xxxx",0755); #xxxx has the absolute path system ("clt setview zzzzz-view; \`cp /vobs/qa/common/yy.txt xxxx\`") +; print "Copy has completed successfully\n";
In the above code what clt setview is doing it is setting a view, but it also spawns a new child shell and from the child shell /vobs/qa/common/yy.txt file is visible, but not from the parent shell. So the above script fails to copy yy.txt file. I have also tried with following command.
system (". clt setview zzzzz-view; \`cp /vobs/qa/common/yy.txt xxxx\` +");
But it is giving error. Can anybody please tell me how can I execute copy command in child shell instead of the parent shell?
Any help really appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Regards
-Pijush

In reply to How to execute command in child shell from parent shell? by pijush

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