Connecting to command prompt

[bunny02]

Hi all,

I m new to perl, and writing a script , in which i need to connect to the command prompt from my perl script and pass some commands like " mkdir testdir".

Is there any module available in perl to do this (in python we have os module) . I googled for it but i didnt get any help.

If any one has idea, please reply asap.
It's urgent.

thanks in advance

bunny

[nithinpes]

Hi all,

I m new to perl, and writing a script , in which i need to connect to the command prompt from my perl script and pass some commands like " mkdir testdir".

Is there any module available in perl to do this (in python we have os module) . I googled for it but i didnt get any help.

If any one has idea, please reply asap.
It's urgent.

thanks in advance

bunny

Hi bunny,
You don't need any module for this. Just put the DOS commands within reverse quotes( ` ).


like:

`mkdir testdir`;
 

will create the directory testdir. Reverse quote is used to execute system commands.

[bunny02]

Hi Nithin

Thanks for ur response, it works fine for me. :)

rgds
bunny

Hi bunny,
You don't need any module for this. Just put the DOS commands within reverse quotes( ` ).


like:

`mkdir testdir`;
 

will create the directory testdir. Reverse quote is used to execute system commands.

[KevinADC]

hopefully nobody sends the command "del c:\" to your perl script. Direct unfiltered input of system commands is very dangerous.

[npidaparthy]

Hi Bunny,

inaddition to back quotes, you can also use 'system' as follows

system('mkdir testdir');

system will execute os commands from Perl

-Nagendra Pidaparthy

Hi all,

I m new to perl, and writing a script , in which i need to connect to the command prompt from my perl script and pass some commands like " mkdir testdir".

Is there any module available in perl to do this (in python we have os module) . I googled for it but i didnt get any help.

If any one has idea, please reply asap.
It's urgent.

thanks in advance

bunny

[numberwhun]

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If any one has idea, please reply asap.
It's urgent.

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