and once again, I lament the lack of the list in the reply-to field...
On 3/7/06, Jay Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/7/06, DiGregorio, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Ok, I am trying to run another perl script from a perl script and have
> > had little luck in doing so. The main script is in one directory and
> > the one it is controlling is in another directory. the main script
> > starts and calls the other script which is supposed to read a file.
> > However, I get can not find the "readfile" which is located in the same
> > directory as the script called by the first. Now, if I run the called
> > script by itself the problem goes away and all is good. So the problem
> > I believe is caused by the CWD of the commanding script. To get around
> > this I tried:
> >
> >
> >
> > chdir("C:\Go\Here\") || die "cant not change dir\n" ;
> >
> > system("perl someScript.pl -a createOperator -p f112a") || die "$_";
> >
> >
> >
> > but it still does not work. Does anyone have an idea to get around this
> > problem?
> >
> >
>
> You haven't given us much to go no here, but your best bet is going to
> be giving 'readfile' as an absolute path, too, or doing chdir in the
> second file.
>
> On a more general note, why use system to run a perl script? invoking
> a second interpreter is a lot of overhead. See 'perdoc -f do',
> instead. You may find that the chdir in your calling script sticks,
> too.
>
> HTH,
>
> --jay
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