Harry Putnam wrote:
>
> I'm not used to writing perl scripts on windows. I'm having a
> problem where a system call dies but still performs the command.
> I don't think I understand how exit status is checked.
Did you read the documentation for system()?
perldoc -f system
system() returns 0 (FALSE) when it SUCCEEDS and non-zero when it FAILS.
> my $target = "E:/some_dir/another_dir";
> system("mkdir $target") or die "Can't mkdir $target: $!";
Why not use perl's built-in mkdir() function?
mkdir $target or die "Can't mkdir $target: $!";
perldoc -f mkdir
John
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