Hi All!
I'm having a problem when running a perl script on Win32 (ActivePerl 5.8.7).

My code is as follows:

$cmd = "md \"$target\\$date\\$currentHost\\$currentDirectory\""; 
$res = `$cmd`;
if ($debug) {print "\n[Command is :: ", $cmd, "]\n[RESULT:: ", $res,"]
+\n\n";
}

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The output given in response is:

A subdirectory or file C:\backups\02-02-2006\test2\C$\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop already exists.
COMMAND is :: md "C:\backups\02-02-2006\test2\C$\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop" RESULT ::

Can anyone explain to me why the error message is being printed to STDOUT
when the second line is getting executed instead of being stored in $res
and printed by the third line?

In reply to WHy error message is printed in STDOUT? by madtoperl

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