A better way to get PATH would be:
$pat = $ENV{PATH};
(forgive me if this doesn't work in win32-perl, I'm a Unix hacker at heart
:)
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From: "Veeraraju_Mareddi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 9:36 AM
Subject: Backticks Command Execution
> $pat = `echo \%path\%`
>
> This should direct output of the echo command to $path variable.
>
> But this is not happening,but it displays output to the screen instead.
>
> I ran this script in around 200 systems(windows 95 + windows 98),130 out
of
> them produced the required output ,as remining failed.
>
> What may be stoping this to happen?.What is scope of the problem to look
> around.
>
> Please help me...
>
> Thanx very much
> With Regards
> Rajuveera
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