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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:28:46 -0400
To: "John Pollock" <jpollock AT curl DOT com>, <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: new sh doesn't translate Unix-style paths for Perl?
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At 12:14 PM 10/20/2000, John Pollock wrote:
>There seems to be a problem in the new sh (1.1.x).  With the old sh, we were
>able to invoke perl scripts directly:
>
>VINCENTE$ sh
>$ cd
>$ pwd
>/cygdrive/m
>$ ./make-version-info.pl
>make-version-info.pl: You must specify --filename
>
>But the new sh doesn't seem to accept direct invocations in this style:
>
>$ pwd
>/cygdrive/m
>$ ./make-version-info.pl
>./make-version-info.pl: not found
>
>This would be OK if we could invoke perl directly and then use the script as
>an argument, and we can do this when the perl script is invoked with a
>DOS-style path:
>
>$ perl m:\make-version-info.pl
>make-version-info.pl: You must specify --filename
>
>but if you use a Unix style path, it doesn't work:
>
>$ perl /m/make-version-info.pl
>Can't open perl script "/m/make-version-info.pl": No such file or directory
>
>Thoughts?
>John



Does it work in bash?  Was your old "sh" ash or bash?



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