Subject: Re: Cygwin Perl system() Invokes exec() Directly?
From: Christopher Faylor <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:19:11 -0400

On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 05:10:52PM -0400, Lehr, Matt (GEA, 510425) wrote:
>	That was quick...
>
>>What is your perl summary (perl-V)?
>
>	Please see attached...
>
>>What is pwd?
>
>	Hey, you've at least got to give me credit for not falling into that
>trap... :-)
>
>		/usr/bin/perl -e '$x=system("wc",".bashrc");$y=system("wc <
>.bashrc");print"$x $y $!\n";'
>	produces
>		5	14	93	.bashrc
>		0 -1 No such file or directory

How about the trap of not having 'wc' in your path?  Try explicitly using
/bin/wc in the above example.

cgf

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