Exiting a call to exec()

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

I use Windows' xcopy quite often, and I can't remember all the command line switches I use. So I wrote a short perl script to ask the user to enter a value for the source and destination. I store them to variables, and then use exec() to call xcopy with the variables and command switches. How do I get xcopy to hand control back to my program and exit when the file copy process is finished?

Regards, Scott

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Re: Exiting a call to exec() by Perlbotics (Archbishop) on Jan 08, 2009 at 00:11 UTC
system should do what you want... or backticks...(qx{..} in perlop)	[reply]
Re^2: Exiting a call to exec() by spickles (Scribe) on Jan 08, 2009 at 16:09 UTC
Perlbotics - system() worked perfectly! Thanks!	[reply]

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