Unix-Windows pathnames

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

Hi Monks! in my script i chdir allot to move from one directory to another, Now i want to use that script on a windows machine therefore the absolute Unix pathnames should be accepted by windows too. I mean i cannot have just /etc... on windows right ?. The c:\ in Windows and the / in Linux is my issue i used the File::Spec to write the following:


$base = File::Spec->rootdir(); 
$path = 'home/me/test/';
$rel_path = File::Spec->abs2rel( $path, $base ) ;
chdir $rel_path;
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but as usually it doesn't work. Maybe i shouldn't be using these functions;

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Re: Unix-Windows pathnames by syphilis (Archbishop) on Oct 13, 2007 at 23:18 UTC
Hi props, In perl, the '/' works fine on Windows. The directory '/home/me/test/' would translate to 'X:\home\me\test' on Windows (where X is the current drive). In the code you provided, $path is a relative path. Shouldn't it be an absolute path ('/home/me/test') ? I suspect that the code will do as you want if you assign to $path with: `$rel_path = File::Spec->abs2rel('/home/me/test');` [download] That's assuming that '/home/me/test' exists and is, in fact, the directory you want to switch to. Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Unix-Windows pathnames by props (Hermit) on Oct 14, 2007 at 08:13 UTC
Many thanks syphilis i can chdir fine now.	[reply]
Re: Unix-Windows pathnames by graff (Chancellor) on Oct 13, 2007 at 22:02 UTC
If you do the chdir like this: `chdir $rel_path or die "chdir failed on $rel_path: $!\n";` [download] You will probably get a better idea of what's going wrong -- better even than anything we could guess at, based on what we know about your situation.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Unix-Windows pathnames by NiJo (Friar) on Oct 14, 2007 at 17:10 UTC
You should have read the full perldoc page: `$path = File::Spec->catdir(home, me, test);` [download]	[reply] [d/l]