Running a batch file from Perl (Activestate perl in Windows)
- by Jithesh
I have a Perl program which does something like below:
#!perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $exe = "C:\\project\\set_env_and_run.bat";
my $arg1 = "\\\\Server\\share\\folder1";
my $arg2 = "D:\\output\\folder1";
my $cmd = "$exe \"$arg1\" \"$arg2\"";
my $status = system("$cmd > c:\\tmp\out.txt 2>&1");
print "$status\n";
I am calling this Perl code in an eval block. When invoked, i get the status printed as 0, but the batch file has not actually executed. What would be the reason for this?
Thanks,
Jits
