Good morning Monks. I am trying to get a perl script to run a batch file in a windows XP directory like so: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $prog = "c:\\program files\\agent\\agent.bat";
system($prog);

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When I run this I get an error that says: Can't spawn "cmd.exe": No such file or directory at c:\projects\runbatch.pl line 4.

Well there IS such a file or directory, and the file has been tested and works when run from its directory. (I need to use the batch file because the program it's running assumes /program files/agent is the working dir).

I've googled around on this problem, and the hits mostly have to do with permissions on unix systems or win servers, or PHP. The few things about it on super search have been of little help.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

TIA.....Steve

In reply to system command can't spawn cmd.exe by cormanaz

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