Chris Devers wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jan 1988, amr wrote: > >> Do we have Perl script that can edit & add to the Windows (XP, 2000) >> path.? > > Is there a reason that a simple system() command won't work here? > > my $status = system( "SET PATH=%PATH%;$new_path" ); > die "Couldn't set %PATH%: $!" if $status; > > Normally I'm opposed to using system commands when the task can be > done either all in Perl or with a platform- and problem- specific > module, but in this case, the cmd shell's SET command is easy to run > directly, so why not just solve the problem that way?
That will change the environment for the cmd.exe process that is executed by that one system() call. Changing %ENV will change the environment for all processes started by the perl script. Changing the global path requires registry trickery, IIRC. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
