I have a Perl program which does something like below:
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $exe = "C:\\project\\set_env_and_run.bat";
my $arg1 = "\\\\Server\\share\\folder1";
my $arg2 = "D:\\output\\folder1";
my $cmd = "$exe \"$arg1\" \"$arg2\"";
my $status = system("$cmd > c:\\tmp\\out.txt 2>&1");
print "$status\n";
I am calling this Perl code in an eval block. When invoked, i get the status printed as 0, but the batch file has not actually executed. What would be the reason for this? Any issue with the 'system' call coded above?
Thanks,
Jits
You need to escape your backslashes inside of double quotes.
my $exe = "C:\\project\\set_env_and_run.bat";
...
my $status = system("$cmd > c:\\tmp\\out.txt 2>&1");
Are you sure the bat file isn't running. I have taken your code, fixed up the paths that don't exist on my machine. I get it to call the batch file
echo In myrun 1=%1 2=%2
And it writes the following to the output file
In myrun 1="\\Server\share\folder1" 2="D:\output\folder1"
I would say that you should define exe like this:
my $exe = "cmd.exe /c C:\\project\\set_env_and_run.bat";
you could use
system ("start C:\\project\\set_env_and_run.bat");