<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
By the way,
> I'm having a problem when redirecting output from a system call to a text
> file. A good example would be:
>
> command.com /c dir /O /a-d /s > dir.txt
>
> When I run this directly from the command line I will get the full path
> structure in the output file. When I call this from a perl script in the
> form:
>
> system ('command.com /c dir /O /a-d /s > dir.txt');
>
> the output to the text file concatentates directory names longer than 8
> characters to 8 characters. My desire is to have the output explicitly
> state the full path rather than the concatenation.
>
> Any ideas what I need to do to overcome this problem?
Which Windows system are you working on? On my XP and 98
systems this call returns the 8.3 file name in the first few
characters of each column and the full file name at the end,
whether it's a directory or a regular file.
Anything that's written in native Perl is best in my book, so
you really should read about reading directories with
perldoc -f opendir
perldoc -f readdir
perldoc -f closedir
But if you just need to traverse a directory tree then take a
look at
perldoc File::Find
HTH,
Rob
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