Just had a chance to swim thru my email archive (I've been buried in trying
to get XML::RSS working)...
The backticks DO work on my machine. I had a number of old emails about
this command...
$strStartTime = `date +%m-%d-%Y %H:%M:%S`;
This was my first post to this list. This doesn't work on Windows, but not
because of backticks (as one old email suggested), but because of the date
function.
Sorry for the mis-communication and mis-information.
Adym Lincoln
Edgewater Technology, Inc.
Phone: (603) 644-2445, 7261
Fax: (603) 669-8330
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
-----Original Message-----
From: Arms, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 12:33 PM
To: Adym Lincoln
Subject: RE: Windows 9x unreliable with backticks
Adym,
Just wanted to concur with what Jenda posted.
I use backticks all the time in my perl scripts on
Win98, WinNT, Win2K.
Read Jenda's post on how to invoke a shell builtin
command (like echo).
--
Mike Arms
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 4:58 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Windows 9x unreliable with backticks
Marc,
I'm surprised you even got this to work. I couldn't get backticks to work
on NT or 2K...I don't work in the 9x environments. But I read somewhere
that backticks are "not" supported on the Windows platforms at all...
Adym Lincoln
Edgewater Technology, Inc.
Phone: (603) 644-2445, 7261
Fax: (603) 669-8330
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
-----Original Message-----
From: Labelle, Marc S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 10:11 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Windows 9x unreliable with backticks
In short:
{
$return = `echo hello world`;
print $return
}
This works fine on windows NT / 2K, but is un-reliable on Windows 9x
platforms.
I am not sure why it will or will not work but is varies system by system,
even when from the same install.
Any information as to the cause of this inconsistency would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
-MSL
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