Thanks for your help!!! Both "cmd /c dir" and "cmd /k dir" work for me. With the option /k, the dos console stayed open but the command "dir" and the output didn't appear on the console. Therefore, I had to write the output a text file to make sure things really happened.
Heidi -----Original Message----- From: R. Joseph Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 8:38 AM To: Bakken, Luke Cc: Heidi Ng; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Running a dos command with Win32::Process? "Bakken, Luke" wrote: > > I want to know if I can open a dos command console and run a command > > on it (i.e. dir or cd $some_dir) with the Win32::Process module. I > > used the following code but the command didn't get pass into the new > > dos console that it opened. > > If I remember correctly, dir and cd are built-in to the cmd shell. So > you would have to do something like this for your command: > > cmd /c "cd somedir" > cmd /c "dir somedir" > > Luke Might be better to use the /K switch, since this leaves the console open. cmd /k "cd somedir" cmd /k "dir somedir" E:\d_drive\perlStuff\guests>cmd /? Starts a new instance of the Windows 2000 command interpreter CMD [/A | /U] [/Q] [/D] [/E:ON | /E:OFF] [/F:ON | /F:OFF] [/V:ON | /V:OFF] [[/S] [/C | /K] string] /C Carries out the command specified by string and then terminates /K Carries out the command specified by string but remains Unfortunately, it does NOT seem to open a new window if run from a console. It simply runs the command in place. It will spawn a window, though, if run from the single-line "Run" utility on the Start menu. Joseph -- 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]
