Re^2: doublequoted commands inside backticks on windows, perl 5.6

Then why does c:\path\cleartool -fmt "%[owner]p" vob:. work? Presumably, path is something like Program Files\cleartool

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Re^3: doublequoted commands inside backticks on windows, perl 5.6 by diotalevi (Canon) on Oct 28, 2004 at 18:06 UTC
Did you not notice that `c:\path\cleartool` works and `c:\path\cleartool\` not? That's the difference - one ends with a backslash and the other does not. File names the end in slashes are always interpreted as directories.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: doublequoted commands inside backticks on windows, perl 5.6 by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 28, 2004 at 18:41 UTC
hum? none of them ends with a backslash. Look again and you'll notice the slash escapes the ", and is removed by perl. The error message isn't consistent with the code provided, though.	[reply]
Re^5: doublequoted commands inside backticks on windows, perl 5.6 by diotalevi (Canon) on Oct 28, 2004 at 18:50 UTC
The error message said it with the trailing \. The quoting of the original string is improbable since if that is the literal perl source it won't work the way the OA says it does. I figure the original assignment is in single quotes or something.	[reply]