I am interested to the answer to this question, too, as I am also working on OS X.

When I use the shell command "open" I always supply an argument that is a document file name, not an application file name. This causes the application bound to the file to be opened. That may be part of your problem. Another issue would be the current path. Your perl script can change the current working directory using function "chdir", which might help.

Then there is your PATH environment variable. If any of the applications are in directories specified using a relative path, your CWD will certainly affect whether the app can be found.

- Paul

In reply to Re: Mac OSX Opening .app & UNIX EXEC by paulchernoch
in thread Mac OSX Opening .app & UNIX EXEC by nevafuse

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