RE: Edit Windows PATH

2005-04-27 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Bakken, Luke wrote: > 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. That's the behavior on POSIXy systems, but I had the impres

RE: Edit Windows PATH

2005-04-27 Thread Bakken, Luke
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 %PAT

Re: Edit Windows PATH

2005-04-27 Thread Chris Devers
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 oppos

Re: Edit Windows PATH

2005-04-27 Thread Offer Kaye
On 1/1/88, amr wrote: > Hi All, > > Do we have Perl script that can edit & add to the Windows (XP, 2000) path.? > The PATH environment variable can be accessed using the %ENV hash: print "$ENV{PATH}"; You can change $ENV{"PATH"} in the script and it will change the PATH for the rest of the scri

Edit Windows PATH

2005-04-27 Thread amr
Hi All, Do we have Perl script that can edit & add to the Windows (XP, 2000) path.? Thanks Amr