On 9 Feb 2022, at 12:37, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: Hi All, Windows 7,10,11 Do we have a command/function that will show all drive letter and their labels? Many thanks, -T
On 2/9/22 04:05, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > What would you use on a command-line to get that information? > > Then look at https://docs.raku.org/routine/run > > Liz > Hi Liz, I was hoping for a system32 call built into Raku. And ordinarily, I do use wmic.exe volume get deviceid,label,name With a workaround to the bug in "run" that does not like quotes in the run line: qqx, shell not operating quotes properly https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/issues/3518 My workaround: sub RunCmd( Str $CommandStr, Bool $EchoOff = False ) { my Str $BatFile = $PathIAm ~ ".bat"; my Str $RtnStr; my Str $CmdStr = ""; if $EchoOff { $CmdStr = Q[@echo off] ~ "\n"; } $CmdStr = $CmdStr ~ $CommandStr ~ "\n"; # print "$CmdStr"; spurt( $BatFile, $CmdStr ); $RtnStr = qqx { $BatFile }; # print "$RtnStr\n"; } I especially like my workaround as I can just use Q[some_command] in the $CommandStr and write directly into it as I would from the command line directly. The problem I am facing is that Ice Drive's mounted drive letter is not showing up in my wmic call. It does show in Windows Explorer (not IE). And the Ice Drive's drive letter does not show anything useful in the registry, which I can also read with a module I wrote. So I was really hoping for a built in system32 call. I really, really don't care for the the trouble associated with using the "C" interface to call system 32 dll's, but I may have to. -T
