Re: Executing an external program from a perl scrip.

2005-12-05 Thread Chris Wagner
At 04:02 PM 12/5/2005 -0300, Alejandro Santillan wrote: >Trying to migrate a perl script from linux to windows (IIS), I need to >execute a command line from within the perl script. >This snippet worked fine in linux (provided the path is correct), but it >didn't work in windows: That sounds very m

RE: Executing an external program from a perl scrip.

2005-12-05 Thread John Serink
First: use "\" not "/". Second: You have to escape the "\" with a second "\" when using double quotes. Your line needs to read: $sys="C:\\antiword\\antiword.exe -t -w 1 document.doc > C:\\Inetpub\\wwwroot\\somedir\\document.txt"; That shou'd work. Alternatively, you could do it this way: $sy