On Dec 6, Jorge Goncalvez said:
>Hi, I wanted to patch a file and I have this:
>
>system(perl -i.rig -pe 's!/home/ftp!/!g' c:\cygwin\etc\passwd)
>
>it fails when I put in a script but it succeed if i run it by hand in a bash.
Because you haven't quoted the system() string.
system(q{perl -i.rig -pe 's!/home/ftp!/!g' c:\cygwin\etc\passwd});
and are you sure that works under windows? I thought windows required you
to use -e "..." instead of -e '...'.
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