Luke, Thanks! Your code works, you are a fantastic
help. I've been surfing (and surfing and surfing)
google for hours trying to find the answer. Your code
works and now my testing can proceed :-) -Mark
--- "Bakken, Luke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm using ActiveState v5.8.4 on Windows XP Home03.
>
> >
> > Here is the entire script...
> > print `dir /s`;
> > print "\n-----\n";
> > system('dir /b');
> > print "\n-----\n";
> > exec("dir /w");
> > print "\n-----\n";
>
> Since dir is a built-in, you should do this:
>
> use strict;
>
> print qx!cmd /c dir /s!;
> print "\n-----\n";
> system('cmd /c dir /b');
> print "\n-----\n";
> system("cmd /c dir /w");
> print "\n-----\n";
>
>
> I do hope this is for testing, and that you won't be
> shelling out to dir
> in your script, as anything dir does can be done in
> pure Perl.
>
> Luke
>
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