in reply to Executing / Retrieving Output from Command

My apologies, I was sure I had posted the few lines I had in the script. There are only a couple of lines in it because all it's doing is taking a .gz file and trying to unzip it. I tried this : 
    results = `gunzip -cf <C:/temp/decrypt/out-3908.gz`;
    print $results;

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and this to see 
    eval("results = `gunzip -cf <C:/temp/decrypt/out-3908.gz`");
    print $results . " | " . $!;

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Re^2: Executing / Retrieving Output from Command
by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 15, 2010 at 19:59 UTC 
    eval("results = `gunzip -cf <C:/temp/decrypt/out-3908.gz`");

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    will likely be an error, because the backticks get interpolated in your double quotes. So unless gunzip -cf <C:/temp/decrypt/out-3908.gz returns Perl code, that won't work.

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Re^2: Executing / Retrieving Output from Command
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 15, 2010 at 20:22 UTC

    How big is the file you're unzipping?

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