Re^2: ActivePERL is the devil?

cd? AFAIK cd is a shell builtin, and perl has chdir.

He was using cd to change the current drive, not the current working directory. I don't know much about windows perl, so can't say whether that's a reasonable thing to try or not, or whether perl's chdir would have done as well.

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Re^3: ActivePERL is the devil? by runrig (Abbot) on Jun 08, 2007 at 01:07 UTC
He was using cd to change the current drive, not the current working directory. I don't know much about windows perl, so can't say whether that's a reasonable thing to try or not... chdir will change drives as well as directories. But as I said previously, 'system("cd ...")' won't stay cd'd in your perl program, just in the command shell.	[reply]