Gabor, > I am not sure if this helps but in Windows you need to put the > double-quotes around $cmd > > my $output = qx{$^X -e "$cmd"};
Yes, that would work if I were running _only_ on Windows. But I need it work for everything (and the double quotes on Linux will cause any variables in my perl code to get intepreted by the shell. :-/ -- Buddy