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as a side note, if you are using the at scheduler, or the scheduled tasks, i do not know how they will take to the command line of `perl myscript.pl`, so you may need to run it through pl2bat first.
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Re: Re: How to automatically execute a perl file....
by Tyke (Pilgrim) on Jul 26, 2001 at 17:27 UTC
    No longer necessary. If perl is in the PATH, and PATHEXT contains the .pl type, then you should be able to type 
      myscript

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    and have the thing work.

    Incidentally I had some trouble with the command line to execute in the NT task scheduler. Here's what I'm actually using 

      C:\WINNT\system32\CMD.EXE /c "perl w:\Admin\scripts\end_of_day.pl 1>
+w:\logs\eod.log 2>w:\logs\eod.err "

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    (Notice that I don't practice what I preach :))
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      Thanks a lot guys for all your help. I really appreciate it!! Have a good day :-) Surya
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