Run a perl script with cygwin

Mark Himsley mark@mdsh.com
Tue Dec 4 12:12:00 GMT 2001


On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 17:17:48 +0100 (MET) you wrote:

>I have this Perl script under Cygwin
>
>#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
>
>my $cmd="c:/cygwin/bin/iu-config";
>system($cmd);
>
>it fails iu-config is the cygwin script shell(/bin/sh).
>Why?Althought It works when i type iu-config from the bash Cygwin

Your $cmd includes a DOS path and not the correct Cygwin path. Try:

my $cmd="/bin/iu-config";

-- 
Mark Himsley
In Acton

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