Better solution for calling 'net use' from Cygwin Perl?
David T-G
davidtg-cygwin@justpickone.org
Wed May 15 13:59:00 GMT 2002
Scott, et al --
...and then Scott Prive said...
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% Hello,
Hello!
%
% I had a .sh script that called Microsoft's "net use" command to mount drives under Win2k, and this worked:
% net use 't:' '\\myserver\share'
Makes sense.
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% However I needed to do this in Cygwin Perl so I could leverage an existing set of Perl libraries I have.
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% For the life of me I could correctly execute the "net use" command from Perl, because the characters would get escaped or not interpreted correctly.
I take it you mean you *couldn't*, right?
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% The Perl workaround a coworker devised was:
% my $cmd = "net use 't:' '\\";
% $cmd .= "\\storigen1u21\\sfstest'";
% print $cmd;
% system $cmd;
%
% and this DOES work. This would be the end of story, except we want to understand what caused the problem in the first place. I suspect it was the brain dead Microsoft command processor getting involved with this system call.
I hate to be picky, but it's worth checking since it certainly ought to
work. Did you try
my $cmd = "net use 't:' '\\\\storigen1u21\\sfstest'";
in the course of your efforts?
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% Anyone care to elaborate? Thanks,
HTH & HAND
%
% Scott
:-D
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