Hallo Soren, you also wrote: > I am trying to finish a test script that uses ActivePerl to call `cygpath` > from itself (a system call, by open()-ing a pipe to capture the output of > the tool ...
> {... stuff ...} > open(CTH, '-|', "C:/cygwin/bin/cygpath $MS_path_filename") > or die "Could not open() call to 'cygpath', what is up?"; > $cygstyle_path = <CTH>; > chomp $cygstyle_path; > {... stuff ...} #!/bin/perl $MS_path_filename = 'H:\bin'; $MS_path_filename = quotemeta($MS_path_filename); open(CTH, '-|', "H:/bin/cygpath $MS_path_filename") or die "Could not open() call to 'cygpath', what is up?"; $cygstyle_path = <CTH>; chomp $cygstyle_path; print "$cygstyle_path\n"; # SCRIPT_END $ /bin/soren_problem.pl /bin What is the problem? Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/