DOS doesn't recognize FORWARDslash as a dir separator. When you use
`backticks` it just sends the command to DOS. Therefore you have to use
BACKslashes inside backticks.
- - Martin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Basil
Daoust
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 15:09
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: renaming files in XP
Same kind of question:
if this works from a DOS command prompt in Windows XP:
C:\>rename \test2\filea fileb
C:\>ls \test2
fileb
why doesn't $x=`rename /test2/fileb filec`;
the $x = null or empty.
the rename(old,new) did work. It even MOVED the file.
Basil
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