Re^3: Perl calling command prompt?

That will run "cmd" first, wait for it to exit, and then run the "cd" command.

You probably just want to run

system ("cd E:\\MyPerl\\Trial_Scripts");
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but then, you can just as easily just use

chdir "E://MyPerl/Trial_Scripts";
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Re^4: Perl calling command prompt? by roboticus (Chancellor) on Nov 27, 2006 at 13:48 UTC
Joost: But they yield different results. I assume the OP would be more interested in the second version than the first. (See a related post in thread trouble with system commands for details...). --roboticus	[reply]
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