Hi, I also have some problem using Perl system call for Windows commands. I used your "system q[]" way to resolve it, but, it didn't work. please see below statement I'm using in my script- 

my $system_error = system q[ "C:\Program Files\Sample\Sample Endpoint 
+Protection Manager\jre\bin\javaw.exe" -Xms256m -Xmx512m -Dcatalina.ho
+me="C:\Program Files\Sample\Sample Endpoint Protection Manager\tomcat
+" -Djava.library.path="C:\Program Files\Sample\Sample Endpoint Protec
+tion Manager\tomcat\bin;C:\Program Files\Sample\Sample Endpoint Prote
+ction Manager\tomcat\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib;C:\Program Files\Sample
+\Sample Endpoint Protection Manager\tomcat\webapps\ROOT\clientpkg\ext
+;C:\Program Files\Sample\Sample Endpoint Protection Manager\ASA\win32
+" -jar "C:\Program Files\Sample\Sample Endpoint Protection Manager\bi
+n\inst.jar" sca "C:\Compatibility_Automation_Temp\AutoConfig.xml" ];
print "system error for auto config command-if: $system_error\n";

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Output of the above code is: system error for auto config command-if: 256 whereas, when I run this code on cmd directly, it returns me success. please let me know if I'm doing something wrong.

In reply to Re^4: Windows System Command by Anonymous Monk
in thread Windows System Command by Ransom

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