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Probably windows command

San — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:18:31 -0700

Probably windows command prompt don't like white space in file names unless you encase them in quotes, but talking to your database via command prompt is not very secure anyway. Can you not get the output from within your script using DBI?

Reading output logs

Arctific — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:37:26 -0700

In UNIX I can run the following

$result = system("$sql_cmd > $output_file") ;
if(!open(SQL, " < $output_file ")) {
print "Error: output file not opened\n" ;
exit 1 ;
}
#
### Process file should happen here... but does not.
#

Why does this not work in Windows?
A) File exists.
B) Even a for loop trying to make successive open's does not work.
C) Files quoted well, all backslashes accounted for.

What can I do to make this $output_file visible to windows?

Best Wishes,

Don Turnblade
MS, CISSP

Perl IO redirection problems on Windows

kevinw — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:17:59 -0700