in reply to system calls

I might be wrong, but I found that system calls under DOS/Win do not work well when the string to execute in in the brackets of sys. Here is my workaround:

#! C:\perl\bin\perl.exe
my $file1 = "test1.txt";
my $cmd = "check.bat > C://$file1 2>&1"; 
system ( $cmd );

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Hope this helps.

Update: Also, even in Windows, use // instead of \\

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Re^2: system calls
by phaylon (Curate) on Apr 22, 2005 at 20:51 UTC
    Good to know. I thought about that first, but wasn't sure if windows can redirect it's error output like the bash.
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Re^2: system calls
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 22, 2005 at 20:51 UTC
    Hello,

    Thanks for the suggestion. I went ahead and tried that. It did not seem to help.

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