Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <80575AFA5F0DD31197CE00805F650D767B20F1@wilber.adroit.com> From: "Robinow, David" To: "'Jorge Goncalvez'" , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Making perl script running under bash cygwin Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 16:32:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" system returns 0. 'system(...) or die' should always die. Does it run the command first? Does this have anything to do with cygwin? i.e., does it perform differently on other systems? -----Original Message----- From: Jorge Goncalvez [mailto:goncal11@col.bsf.alcatel.fr] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 10:57 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE:Making perl script running under bash cygwin Hi, I have this : system("perl -i.orig -pe 's!/home/ftp!/!g' c:/cygwin/etc/passwd") or die; And it dies always althought it works if I run it by Hand in the cygwin bash. Why? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/