gitarwmn has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm trying to run an .exe from Windows on a command line with spaces in the path and can't quite figure out how it should work.

It looks something like this... 

my $stcmdpath = "C:\\Program Files\\Starbase\\StarTeam 5.4";
open(DODIFF, "$stcmdpath\\stcmd.exe diff") or die "Can't find stcmd\n"
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close(DODIFF);

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Anyone know how to get this to work. Thanks

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Re: path with spaces
by iburrell (Chaplain) on Mar 23, 2004 at 20:16 UTC
    First, you aren't running the command from Perl. You are opening the file called 'C:\Program Files\Starbase\StarTeam 5.4\stcmd.exe diff'. You need to use a piped open: 
    open(DODIFF, "$stcmdpath\\stcmd.exe diff |");

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    Second, you need to quote the command name for the Windows shell. 

    open(DODIFF, "\"$stcmdpath\\stcmd.exe\" diff |");

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      Great, thank you! It's working now.
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