On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 05:37:27PM -0400, Casey West wrote:
: On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:16:41PM -0700, Peter Lemus wrote:
: : Hi,
: : I'm having some trouble trying to execute the followin
: : command from a perl script.
: : rmdir /s /q username #this works from the command line
: : in win2k.
: : I tried:
: : system 'rmdir /s /q $user' # no luck. Any
: : suggestions?
:
: My first suggestion is to look at the '$?' variable, it holds the
: error code for system() calls.
:
: system( "romdir /s /q $user" ) || dir $?;
dir??? "Casey, that's supposed to be die(), dummy."
: Second, you were using single quotes with a variabe ( $user ) inside.
: That means that $user was getting sent to rmdir instead of the value
: of $user. Examples:
:
: $user = 'cwest';
:
: print '$user'; # prints $user
: print "$user"; # prints cwest
:
: Casey West
:
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: --Oscar Levant
Casey West
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