If you do that, you will be invoking the shell, changing the current directory for the shell, and then closing the shell. What you want is to use the chdir() Perl function to change the current directory of your Perl script.
perldoc -f chdir -----Original Message----- From: Torres, Jose To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: 5/23/02 9:03 AM Subject: command-line commands within a Perl script Hi, I have a directory with several subdirectories, each full of several dozen Word files. For each subdirectory, I need to run the checksum app against all of that directory's files and output a file into that directory with the checksum results. How can I do this? I'm very unfamilar with running command-line commands from within an Perl script. I know to change directories, you can do something like this: $changeDir = "cd ".$startingDir; system($changeDir); but what about retrieving the list of subdirectories from the starting directory? How can I do this? Thanks for your help. -Jose -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
