(response below) >-----Original Message----- >From: Hardly Armchair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 3:19 PM >To: Timothy Johnson; beginners@perl.org >Subject: RE: [Win32] Basic I/O Question
<snip> >> If you want to use the less-than operator (or a >> pipe), then you have to >> explicitly state that you are using perl.exe. >> cmd.exe can't derive >> implicitly the program you are invoking via the >> extension. >> >> For example: >> >> c:\> perl.exe while.pl < "..\myfile.txt" > > >Thank you, Timothy. I tested a simple "type" program >on a test file located on c: and another drive and it >behaved exactly as you said. I couldn't find any >documentation mentioning that adding "perl.exe" before >the program and file name is a necessary condition to >get pipes and command-line files to work with <STDIN>. > This seems like it would be an important thing to >know for anyone as green as myself. > >Adam I don't think the documentation exists, or at least I haven't been able to find it. Windows people don't tend to use pipes and redirection as much as their xNIX counterparts, in part because virtually all command-line tools for the Win32 platform that take input from a file allow you to specify the file as a parameter. The best documentation I've found is here: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs /en-us/redirection.mspx but it doesn't say anything about invoking applications by association. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
